of Edinburgh, Session 1883 - 84 . 
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Argyleshire. 
Kintyre. — (1) At Southend, and also along east coast, south of 
Camphelton, the Convener saw and examined a number of boulders 
of a whitish-grey colour, which the schoolmaster considered to he 
granites, adding, that he knew of no rocks of that nature in Kintyre. 
The Convener found pebbles of same rock in gravel pits at 
Camphelton, and was there informed that rock of same nature 
occurs to the north of Camphelton, Professor Kicol of Aberdeen, 
when he visited Kintyre, saw these boulders, and thought they had 
been transported from Arran, where there is rock of the same kind ; 
in which case, they must have travelled 25 miles across the deep 
hollow of Kilbrennan Sound in a direction from K.E. {Quarterly 
Journal of London Geological Society, voL viii. p. 422). 
About a mile to east of Camphelton, smoothed rocks occur, dipping 
or sloping K.KW. — as if smoothing agent had come from that 
quarter {Sixth Report, p. 5). 
(2) Near Kilhenzie^ a few miles west of Camphelton, a hill reach- 
ing to a height of from 500 to 600 feet, is covered with drift, and 
(on its western slopes) with gneiss and mica slate boulders, several 
weighing above 150 tons. 
Old Eed Sandstone rock on west eoastj covered with drift ; and on 
the drift, boulders of granite and gneiss. Diagram given in Sixth 
Report, representing these on a bank sloping down N.N.W. towards 
sea, at angle of 25°. 
A boulder of gneiss found lying on mica schist strata, blocked 
at south endj its longer axis lying N. by E. and S. by W. Boulder 
said to have come from north {Lithograph No. 1, Plate VIII.). 
In a fissure of the mica slate strata on the sea- shore of west 
coast near Tangy Burn (the fissure running N Wa and S.E.), a boulder 
of hard gneiss, weighing about 1 5 tons, has fallen into the fissure. 
It presses on S^W. wall of fissure, showing that the boulder had pro- 
bably come from some N. or N.E. point. Fissure about 6 feet wide. 
A chip of one of the granite boulders found on west coast, having 
been submitted to Professor Heddle, he said that it was a peculiar 
variety, well known in the Mourne Mountains in the N.E. of 
Ireland, on account of there being frequently in it crystals of topaz. 
In the chip from Kintyre, sent to him by Convener, the Professor 
found two topaz crystals. 
