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of Edinburgh, Session 1872-73. 
a mile distant Boulder split into two unequal parts. Its 
Gaelic name is “ Clach Schuilt” — meaning “ Cloven Stone.” 
Height above sea, 2090 feet. (Captain White, B.E.) 
Duntelchak Hill , west of Inverness. — Top about 900 feet above sea. 
Bocks composing it, a coarse conglomerate. On N.W. side of 
hill, rocks ground down and smoothed ; — on S.E. side of hill 
rocks rough and steep. 
A granite boulder lying on N.W. slope of this hill, about 30 
feet below top. Length 7 feet, width 4 feet. Longer axis 
N.W., and sharp end towards that quarter. (Convener.) 
Flicliity Valley . — Beds of sand and gravel seen on hills to south, 
about 1500 feet above sea. Not near enough to be examined. 
At east or lower end of valley, top of a rocky hill striated, in 
direction parallel with axis of valley, viz., E.N.E. 
At Farr, in Nairn Valley, a continuation of Flichity Valley, 
near the Free Church, a most remarkable assemblage of 
boulders. Some rounded, but most of them angular. Many 
are about 7 feet square. No conglomerate boulders here ; — all 
gneiss or mica schist. They mostly rest on gravelly detritus, 
which may have been moraines. Others (and these are round 
shaped) rest on a smoothed rocky surface of gneiss beautifully 
glaciated, and sloping down towards west — i.e ., looking up 
valley. fSee Plate, Sketch No. XIII.) This glaciated rock — 
smooth towards west, and dipping at angle of 30° — is on its 
east side rough and vertical. Very manifestly these rounded 
blocks, glaciated rocks, and gravelly debris, indicated glacier 
action. Two valleys meet here, one (Flichity) bearing due 
west, the other (Duntelchak) bearing N.W. Both valleys 
deserve exploration, with reference to remains above specified. 
At lower end of Flichity Valley (about 3 miles west of these 
boulders), a great embankment of gravel and sand, through 
which Biver Nairn has cut passage about 200 feet deep. 
Before this passage cut, a lake must have filled Flichity Valley, 
dammed back by the gravel accumulation. That such a 
lake existed, proved by terraces on hill sides of valley. Query , 
If a glacier filled this valley, and brought blocks and moraines 
to Farr Church, when did this occur? Any gravelly embank- 
ment, such as now exists at east end of Flichity Valley, would 
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