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of Edinburgh, Session 1871-72. 
Bodies. — Six hornblende boulders, lying on gneiss rocks ; dimen- 
sions and positions given. (Beporter — John Martin.) 
Fife. 
Balmerino. — Mica schist (?) boulder, 12x9x8 feet; destroyed 
some time ago. (Beporter — James Powrie, Esq., Beswallie, 
Forfar.) 
Grail. — Granite boulder, K) x 8 x 6 feet, called Blue Stone o’ 
Balcomie,” close to sea margin at East Neuk. Also trap 
boulder, 12 x 8 x 7i feet. (Beporter — Captain White, B.E.) 
Dunfermline. — Whinstone boulder, 17 x 15 x 6 feet, about 114 tons, 
called “ Witch Stone.” Legend. (Beporter- — Bobert Bell, 
Pitconocbie.) 
Leslie. — Kaim of sand and gravel near village, 100 to 300 feet 
wide, and 20 feet high, cut through by a brook. (Beporter — 
John Sang, C.E., Kirkcaldy.) 
Newburgh. — On shore, near Flisk point, boulder of sienitic gneiss, 
about 15 tons. Legend is, that a giant who lived in Perth- 
shire hills flung it at Flisk church. (Dr Fleming, “ Lithology 
of Edinburgh,” p. 83.) 
West Lomond. — Hill about 1450 feet above sea, boulder of red 
sandstone and porphyry lying on carboniferous limestone. 
(John Sang, C.E., Kirkcaldy.) 
Forfar. 
Airlie. — A remarkable kaim running two miles eastward from 
Airlie Castle. (Beporter — Daniel Taylor, schoolmaster.) 
Barry. — Granite, sienite, and gneiss boulders and pebbles, on shore, 
and also on raised beaches, 11 and 45 feet respectively above 
sea level. (Beporter — James Proctor.) 
Benliolm. — Huge granite boulder, called “ Stone of Benholm,” now 
destroyed. Boulders on sea shore, of granite and gneiss, many 
of which are supposed to have come out of the conglomerate 
rocks, which occur here in situ. One boulder 18x12x3 feet, 
another 12x6x4 feet. “ Stone of Benholm,” stood on apex 
of a Trap knoll. The Trap knoll presents a surface of rock, 
which has apparently been ground down and smoothed by 
some agent passing over it from west ; the exact line of move- 
