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of Edinburgh, Session 1872 - 73 . 
Dr Neill supposed, from Stromness, it is right to keep in view 
that granite and gneiss rocks abound to the N.N.W. in the 
Shetland Islands. Transportation by land ice from these 
remote islands seems also inconceivable. 
Mr Miller, schoolmaster of Cross and Burness, reporting the 
above boulder in Sanda to Committee, says that it is 22 feet in 
girth, and is round in shape. 
Stromness (Parish). — Two granite boulders lying on old red sand- 
stone near manse. A range of granite hills six miles long 
situated to eastward. One of boulders is a mile, the other 
a quarter of a mile distant from these hills. One boulder 50, 
the other 100 feet above sea. Each boulder 3 or f feet in 
length, breadth, and height. (Reporter, Rev. Ch. Clouston.) 
Perth. 
Blairgowrie . — Two miles west of town, on road to Essendy Bridge, 
a Druidical circle of 5 large mica-schist boulders, about 5 feet 
long, and 6 or 7 feet in girth. 
Another boulder, 7x5x3 feet, lies on summit of steep 
acclivity on Woodhead Farm. — (W. S. Soutar.) 
Granite boulder, 4 x 3| x 3 feet, on side of Ericht, quarter 
mile N. of Blairgowrie, excavated in making mill lead. No 
rock of same kind nearer than 30 miles in Braemar range 
of hills to N.W. Height above sea, 200 feet. Numerous 
granite blocks found in excavating for foundations of houses 
in Blairgowrie. 
Callander . — Gneiss boulder called “Samson’s Putting Stone ” on top 
of Bochastle Hill, two miles west of Callander, 14 x 9 x 9 feet. 
Longer axis N.N.E. Lies on coarse old conglomerate, viz., 
same bed or stratum which crosses Scotland from Dumbarton 
to Stonehaven. Boulder, judging by nature of rock com- 
posing it, must have come from north-westward, it occupies 
precarious position, being close to edge of a precipitous face 
of hill about 330 above valley, fronting W.S.W. towards 
Loch Katrine. It may have been lodged either by a 
glacier which descended from Loch Katrine, or by floating 
ice, when land submerged. About 50 feet below the above 
boulder, and on a very steep part of hill, another boulder. 
