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up from loch, shows many small boulders, — their longer axis and 
sharpest ends pointing IST. W. {Fourth Report^ P-21, Sixth Report^ p. 6). 
On east hank of Loch Lomond, nearly opposite to Arden, at about 
337 feet above sea, a grey granite boulder 5x4x4 feet, much 
rounded — lying on Old Bed Sandstone strata. Longer axis E. and 
W. ; — it had probably crossed loch, from west {Sixth Report, p. 7). 
In Cameron House Policy, gneiss boulder 6J x 5 x 5 feet, with 
longer axis N.W. and S.E, 
About 3 miles to S.W. of the south end of Loch Lomond there 
is a hill called “ Caer-manf reaching to height of 720 feet above sea. 
Rocks on top are a coarse porphyry. The rocks on western aspects 
are well rounded ; — on eastern aspect, the rocks are rough. There 
are huge fragments on east side of top, none on west side {Fourth 
Report, p. 21). 
Dumfriesshire. 
Kirkconnel. — Granite boulder, 7 feet in diameter, 20 to 30 tons, 
700 feet above sea. Differs from adjoining rocks. Ho granite 
rock nearer than Spango Water {First Report, p. 30). 
Tynron. — Three whinstone boulders, each weighing from 20 to 30 
tons, also several Conglomerate boulders ; — all have apparently come 
from H.W. {First Report, p. 30). 
Wamphray. — Large whinstone boulder {First Report, p. 36). 
Moffat. — Several large perched boulders near Loch Skene, at 
height of 1900 feet above sea — {Mr Ralph Richardson inferred that 
they were “ transported by a local, glacier ”) — {Seventh Report, p. 28). 
(See notes regarding these boulders, by Convener, in the Transac- 
tions of the Edinburgh Geological Society for May 1881.) 
Langholm. — In Wauchope valley, and also in bed of that river, 
granite boulder 16 x 11 x feet, weighing from 50 to 70 tons, lying 
on Sandstone rocks. Many others scattered about {W. Strachan 
Schoolmaster, Langholm). 
Cairnsmore of Fleet, a hill 2331 feet high, situated in Kirkcud 
brightshire; — composed of coarse grey granite. — “Boulders of 
Cairnsmore granite are scattered over the hills to the S.E. One is 
on the west face of the Nether Hill, at the height of 1100 feet, and 
8 miles distant from its source ” {Survey of Dumfriesshire by Scotch 
Government Surveyors in Memoir, No. 9, p. 39). 
