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of like elevation. Boulders of granite, quartzose gneiss, and laminated 
quartz lie on western brow of mountain and up to summit. No 
granite rocks occur in situ in Morven. Bocks there consist of 
greenish hornblende and white felspar (^Seventh Rejport^ p. 40). 
Belhelvie—^lQmiio, boulder about 8 feet in diameter, called 
“ Kepjple Stonef near public school. Bocks in situ^ near boulder, 
are granite [First Report , p, 21). 
Several greenstone boulders (supposed to be Druidical) 
— called “ Altar Stone f v/eighing 18 tons; “ Bell Stanef weighing 
about 20 tons; Wallace's Putting Stone f 24 feet in girth; 
and other two, called Piper's Stone" and Maiden Stone," 
Boddam.—^Qsre the Bullers of Buchan stands the Hare or Qleft 
Stone, a granite boulder 9x8 feet, which marks boundary between 
parishes of Cruden and Peterhead. 
Another granite boulder, in a ravine, 14x8x5 feet; another 
18 X 12 X 5J feet ; another 13x9x5 feet. Along the south side of 
Peterhead Bay, and as far as Buchan Ness, the shore strewed with 
blocks of granite, gneiss, trap, and sandstone ; many of them com- 
posed of rocks not found nearer than 20 or 30 miles [First Report, 
p. 23, and Second Report, p, 20). 
In Boddam Dean, a granite boulder called The Hanging 
Stone," 37 feet in girth and 27 feet over it. Half a mile east, another 
of 20 tons. Huge granite boulder, called the “ Grey Stone of 
Ardendr aught," was broken up in the year 1779 to build walls of 
a new parish church. It was the stone on which All Hallow 
fires" used to be lighted {First Report, p. 2), 
Braemar,- — There is a hill close to village named “ Cairn~a- 
reaching an elevation of 2700 feet. Near the top of the hill, 
viz., about 70 yards to the north, lies a block of coarse granite 
12 feet long, with many other boulders of the same kind. The rocks 
of the upper part of the hill consist not of granite, but of quartzose 
gneiss. Opinion expressed by Mr Jamieson of Ellon, that the large 
block, and many of the others near it, came from mountains to the 
north, the granite of which is identical with that of the boulders. 
In letter to Convener, Mr Jamieson mentions that, near shooting lodge 
on this hill, there is a cluster of four or five immense granite boulders 
touching one another [First Report, p, 22, and Seventh Report, p, 41). 
Ben Uarn More forms the culminating peak of the great ridge 
