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of Edinburgh, Session 1871 - 72 . 
longing to Lord Dunmore.) Gneiss boulder, 8j x 7 x 3 feet. 
Longer axis N. and S. 30 feet above sea. Striated N. and S. 
Striae from 2 to 4 feet long. Same rock as those in situ. 
Called “ Craig nan Ramh.” (Reporter — Rev. Hugh Macdonald, 
Manse, Bernera.) 
The Lewis (Stornoway, Tolsta). — A rocking stone of gneiss 
12 x 5 x 4^ feet. Longer axis N.W. and S.E. About 200 feet 
above sea. Rocks in situ also gneiss. There are boulders 
of trap, apparently brought from eastward, where there are 
trap dykes. At a corner of a rocky hill near Tolsta, there are 
huge pieces of rock lying, suggesting idea of having been 
broken off by an iceberg. On Park Farm, beside a loch, there 
is a solitary boulder. Near Stornoway Tile Works, a boulder 
of Cambrian rock, supposed to have come from mainland to 
eastward. (Reporter — Mr Peter Liddell, Gregs, by Stornoway.) 
Stornoway . — Several boulders occur near Garabast, of a rock similar 
to that which exists at Gairloch, on mainland to east (about 
35 miles across the sea). There is also a large standing stone 
at Paible. (Reporter — Henry Caunter, Esq., Stornoway.) 
In Forest of Harris, and beween Fincastle and Glen Ulled ale, 
there are many evidences of (supposed) ice action, viz., rocks 
smoothed and striated, and boulders lying in lines. (Reporter — 
Capt. Thomas, R.N.) 
Report by Mr Campbell of Islay. 
The well-known author of “Frost and Fire,” who has studied the 
subject of the transport of boulders, not only in Scotland, but 
in many foreign lands on both sides of the Atlantic, has sent 
to the Committee a report, from which the following extracts 
are made : — 
“ I find in Scotland, upon ridges which separate rivers, 
marks of glaciation upon a large scale. These enable me to 
say, with tolerable certainty, that the ice which grooved rocks 
in the Outer Hebrides, at low levels, near sounds, moved from 
the ocean in the direction which tides now follow in the straits 
beside which the striae are found. 
“ The conclusion at which I have arrived, by the examina- 
tion of all these phenomena, boulders included, is, that a 
system of glaciations prevailed in Scotland, which can be ex- 
