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mentioned in my notes of last year, is certainly of the Stratherrick 
liver-coloured variety ; but the block on the top of Roseisle Hill, 
also mentioned by me, may he of the other. This second con- 
glomerate would seem, from various indications, to have been 
transported at an earlier period than the Stratherrick, for it is 
found embedded at greater or less depths in the prevalent boulder- 
clay of Morayshire; whereas the Stratherrick rock is seldom, if 
ever, thus buried, being confined more to the upper surface of the 
country. The glaciation of Morayshire shows two main directions 
of the scratches, indicating two lines of ice movement from the 
westward, as exhibited admirably on the ridge of Carden Moor, 
near Alves station. These scratches point respectively 13° N. of 
W., and 6° S. of W., as the directions from which the ice has come. 
The second conglomerate may have been carried across the Moray 
Firth from Ross-shire, like the Dirriemore granite, in the line of 
the former scratches. 
The red orthoclase Kinsteary Granite, found in situ near Nairn, 
is very abundantly distributed from this point towards the east, 
onwards beyond Buckie. 
Mr Linn of the Geological Survey, at present engaged in mapping 
the district round Elgin, has found these three rocks widely spread 
all over the Laigh of Moray, and has taken the fullest notes of the 
composition and positions of the various carried blocks there, which 
will be embodied in his map of the region, and will form an 
important contribution to the question of the transportation of rocks 
along the south shores of the Moray Firth. 
I append some notes supplied to me by Mr Wallace of the High 
School, Inverness, mentioned in last year’s notes, regarding their dis- 
tribution on the north coast of Banffshire. These carry the account 
of the transport of boulders eastwards to Cullen. It would be most 
desirable that the Committee should, if possible, obtain information 
regarding their farther distribution through Aberdeenshire, and thus 
complete their story to the German Ocean. 
