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(14) On Eye Peninsula a brickwork of boulder clay, in which, 
at a height of about 200 feet above sea, fragments of marine shells 
seen by Convener. 
Dr Geikie mentions those, and states that similar shells were 
found by him in a deposit stretching across the north part of the 
Lewis, from shore to shore {Fifth Report, p. 36). 
(15) With reference to the above-mentioned group of islands, 
sometimes called the Long Island, remarks of a general character 
may not be inappropriate. 
Mr J. F. Campbell (formerly of Islay), author of Frost and 
Fire, wrote as follows to the Convener : — 
“ In the Long Island, from Barra Head to the Butt of Lewis, the 
whole country is glaciated, with boulders everywhere perched on 
the hills. Wherever the surface is newly exposed, the striations 
and smoothings are so perfect that the marks can be copied as 
^Brasses’ are copied.” 
In a letter from the same gentleman to Mr Alex. Carmichael 
of the Inland Eeveiiue, a native of the Hebrides, the former re- 
marks ; — “ Glacial striae occur upon fixed rocks in Tiree, Mingley, 
Barra, South and Horth Uist, and correspond with a direction from 
N.W. or thereabouts. The hills are ice- worn to the very tops. 
Transported blocks are scattered over all these islands.” 
13. Skye. — The Convener regrets that the Committee received no 
report from this island ; nor had he an opportunity of visiting it 
himself, except at one spot, viz.. Loch Scavaig, on the west coast, 
where the steamboat stops for an hour to allow passengers to see 
Goriusk. The Convener then saw and examined a large boulder 
{Lithograph Ho. 30, Plate X.). Its position, on a rock between the 
sea and the adjoining lake, is described on page 66, Sixth Report. 
The rock on which it stands slopes steeply towards W. by X., 
and it is in so precarious a position that it must have been very 
gently let down by the agent, whatever it was, which transported it. 
Professor Heddle reported that in the year 1879 he walked along 
H.E. part of Skye from Aird Point to Portree, and partially among 
the hills, but saw no boulders. 
He visited Stainchol Island, situated off the east coast, and found 
Cambrian Conglomerate blocks, similar to what he had seen on the 
Shiant Islands, and similar also to the rocks existing in the Lewis, 
