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Ellon parish. In this parish formerly, a rocking stone called “ The 
Muchle Stane of AuchmcdiddieS A (so called) Druidical block 
formerly on Culsb Hill (Pratt’s Account of Buchan, 1858). On 
Whitestone, Ellon, andDudwich Hills, chalk flints found abundantly 
[First Reyort^ p. 25). 
Towie. — Block of unhewn granite, reaching a height of 7 feet 
above the ground, on north side of river Don, near bridge. 
Supposed to be Druidical i^First Report, p. 25). 
Cruden. — Granite boulder measuring 37 feet in girth and 27 feet 
over it, supposed to be Druidical. Another weighs 20 tons. 
Another huge granite boulder, on which said, that All Hallow 
Fires ” used to be lighted [First Report, p. 22). 
Ellon. — Several boulders, one 22 x x 8J feet, and another still 
larger, which have come from W. or W.H.W. [First Report, p. 24). 
Glass. — Several large boulders differing from adjoining rocks, 
more than 1000 feet above sea. 
1, Hotes by Mr T. F. Jamieson, Ellon (from Quarterly 
Journal of London Geological Society, 7th Feb. 1866) : — 
(1) On coast, south of Fraserburgh, there are several localities 
where the rocks are smoothed and striated in such a way as to show 
a movement over them from 40° FT. to 60° W. 
(2) In the neighbourhood of Peterhead (at Invernettie Brick- 
work), many boulders of red and grey sandstone, and also of a 
tough greenish coloured stone, all which resemble rocks that occur 
in Caithness, but not in the adjoining parts of Aberdeenshire [First 
Report, p. 29). 
(3) At King-Edivard, ‘Hhere are deep masses of unstratified 
pebbly mud of a dark grey colour, very hard and firm, containing 
stones (some of which are ice- worn and striated), and fragments of 
shells, which are likewise occasionally scratched. It is like the 
Caithness drift in every respect.” — “ Besides this coarse stony mud, 
there are some beds of fine stratified sand, which often contain 
remains of shells in considerable abundance, most of them broken, 
but many of them entire.” — “ There is another bed of fine dark 
grey silt, free from stones, containing arctic shells entire, and 
apparently in situ, with the epidermis on.” The Tellina calcaria 
occurs here of large size, with both valves connected by the ligament 
and shut. 
