of Edinburgh, Session 1883-84. 
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APPENDIX I. 
Abstract of Information in the Nine Annual Reports of the 
Committee, 
Aberdeenshire. 
Aberdeen, Toivn of. — In excavating for foundation of house in 
Union Street, a boulder of syenitic granite, with hornblende crystals, 
found 6x5x4 feet, weighing about tons. The under surface 
of boulder covered with ruts, all parallel with longer axis, some o 
them 3 feet long. Longer axis pointed E. and W. No rock like 
that of boulder nearer than Belhelvie, 10 miles to north, or Huntly, 
40 miles to X.W., or Ballater, about 40 miles W.S.W. Dr Cruick- 
shank having, in July 1870, got notice of the boulder, made it 
known to late Professor Xicol, who caused it to be split, and the 
striated part set up in court of Marischall College {First Report, 
p. 21, and letter to Convener from Dr Cruickshank). 
A syenite boulder 5 x,3 x feet, with, striae parallel to longer 
axis, built into a wall in King Street Road. 
In Aberdeen newspaper of November 1881, account given of 
granite boulder, weighing about 8 tons, at the east end of Urqiihart 
Road, found in excavating a bed of sand. 
Mounds and ridges of shingle and gravel, all water rolled, 
abound north of . Aberdeen, near shore. Large boulders of trap, 
granite, and gneiss rest on top and surfaces of these ridges. 
Foreran. — In a field on Drums Farm, a huge granite boulder, called 
The Grey Stone,^^ measuring 54 feet in circumference, with a height 
of 7 feet above ground. Another block, also apparently a transported 
mass, measures 78 feet in circumference, and projects 6 feet out of 
ground. A little to the north of Drums, on one of these gravel 
ridges, lies a boulder, 8- x 5 feet. A layer of red clay about 9 inches 
thick, overlies the gravel. Boulder rests on gravel, but clay 
over the gravel encircles its base {Seventh Report, p. 39). 
Ballater. — Morven Hill, 2963 feet above sea, is situated a few 
miles north of Ballater, It stands many miles apart from any hill 
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