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Jolly of Inverness with the granite rocks of the Dirrie Muir, a tract 
in Ross-shire situated to the west of Ben Wyvis, and lying about half- 
way between the east and west coasts. These boulders have been 
transported in a E.S.E. direction across the Cromarty Firth, over 
the district of the Black Isle, and across the Moray Firth, into the 
low grounds of Moray and Banff. The distance travelled must be 
nearly 100 miles. Second , there are two other granites, one red and 
the other grey, which have been transported from the hills forming 
the sides of the great Caledonian Valley, — called the Loch Ness 
granite and the Stratherrick granite. 
These boulders also are found in Moray- and Banff-shires, and show 
a line of transport not quite the same as the Dirrie Muir granite, 
viz., about E. by N. 
Mr Jolly says, that the Stratherrick granite boulders have been 
seen by him on the hills south of the Great Valley, up to a height 
of 1500 feet. But the Boulder Committee, three or four years ago, 
received through Captain White of the Ordnance Survey, notice of 
these boulders, having been found by his surveyors at heights of 
2250 feet, the parent rocks being on hills 2900 feet in height. This 
fact is mentioned in the Committee’s second annual Report. 
These boulders, before reaching Morayshire, must have travelled 
also about 100 miles. 
A fourth class of granite boulders in Morayshire and Banffshire 
is a beautifully pink-coloured rock, quarried at a place called Kin- 
steary in Nairnshire. No boulders of this peculiar granite are seen 
east of the parent rock. 
What has now been said of Granite boulders, as regards transport, 
applies to the boulders of Conglomerate. There are two kinds of 
conglomerate rock forming them, and they come from different dis- 
tricts, — one in the Great Valley itself, which it crosses near the hill 
called Meal Fourvounie ; the other in Ross-shire, at some distance 
to the north of the Great Valley. 
The Committee have, in regard to these Moray- and Banff- 
shire boulders, obtained valuable notes from Mr Jolly and Mr 
Wallace, both resident in Inverness. The information given as to 
the position of the parent rocks is gratifying in this respect, that 
when, three years ago, many of these boulders were examined by 
myself, I drew an inference regarding the quarter from which they 
