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Proceedings of the Royal Society 
On the top of Meigle Hill, about 2 miles from Galashiels, there 
is a boulder which I was requested to come 
and examine. It is of this shape, and its size 
is 6 x 4J x 3f feet. 
Its longer axis lies N.W. and S.E., the sharp ^ 
end pointing N.W. The person who invited 
me to visit the boulder, and guided me to it, told me that he had, 
by means of a lever, moved the boulder about 9 inches from 
its original natural position. The boulder is a hard grey Silurian 
rock, much harder than the rock of the hill, which is also 
Silurian. 
The boulder, being well rounded, seems to have undergone much 
friction ; and there are hollows and scoopings on several parts, such 
as frequently occur on rocks long subject to the eddying action of 
water. The boulder is about 58 yards east from the apex of the 
hill. It appeared to be lying on gravel or other drift materials, and 
about 12 feet below the apex of the hill. The hill reaches to a 
height of about 1430 feet above the sea. Many other boulders 
occur near the top of the hill, all of the same Silurian rock, well 
rounded, but none quite so large as the one above described. 
Meigle Hill stands by itself, i.e., there are no other hills of equal 
altitude within some miles. There can be no doubt that all the 
above mentioned are “ erratics ,” but from what quarter brought 
there is nothing to show. It would be difficult, however, to con- 
ceive any other medium of transport than floating ice. 
In looking through the Committee’s previous Reports, I find 
reference made to a boulder near Doune, a conglomerate , weighing 
about 900 tons. A full account of this boulder, of the gravel beds 
on which it lies, and of its probable parent rock, is given in my 
little book called “Estuary of the Forth” (Edmonstone & Douglas, 
1871), to which it may be allowable to refer (page 41). There are, 
Perth and Stirling Shires. 
