of Edinburgh, Session 1883-84. 
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is a remarkable assemblage of gneiss or mica slate houldeis {Lithograph 
No. 34, Plate X.). They were first pointed out to the Convener by Mr 
Jolly. Some rest on glaciated rock surfaces, sloping down to westward, 
and which therefore suggest transport of the boulders from westward. 
Eeasons given for suggesting first a glacier, which passed down 
eastward, and subsequently a submergence of the land under the 
ocean (Second Report, p. 159). 
(9) About 6 miles S.W. of Inverness, an extensive plain, about 
645 feet above sea-level, covered with drift, on which several Con- 
glomerate boulders occur. They probably came from Duntelchaig 
and other hills to westward. One is 24x21x8 feet — 310 tons. 
Longer axis W.N.W. 
On “ Graig-a-Claclianf at a height of about 1100 feet above 
sea, a large Conglomerate boulder called “ Watch Stone^' — made known 
to Convener by Mr J oily. It lies on gneiss rock, and on very edge 
of a precipice of 100 feet vertically below it, on its N.E. side. In 
order to reach a site in this position it could have come in no other 
way than in a direction between W. by N. and W.N.W., and 
almost certainly on floating ice. 
On the same hill there are other boulders of smaller size, whose 
position in like manner suggests transport from westward. 
(10) Some miles farther south there is a lake bearing name of 
Loch Clachanf probably on account of the number of boulders on 
its banks and the hills adjoining. Most of these are of grey granite. 
By reference to Professor Geikie’s Geological Map of Scotland, it 
will be seen that the nearest position for granite rocks in this 
district is Loch Paraline, about 15 miles westward. 
One of these boulders is 21 x 20 x 14 feet (218 tons) at 983 feet 
above sea. Another about same size, and at about 1259 feet above sea 
has its sharp end towards west. The east end is broad, and butted 
up against a gneiss rock, which would obstruct its passage eastward. 
On this gneiss rock there are E. and W. striae, which might have been 
made by the boulder pushing and pressing hard pebbles over the rock. 
(The facts given in (9) and (10) are taken from Convener’s 
Treatise on Ancient Water Lines, pp. 86, 87.) 
(11) Craig Phaedrich Hill, consisting of Conglomerate rock. 
On its N.W. slopes the rocks are bared, rounded, and smoothed, 
with boulders of gneiss lying on the N.W. slopes. Hardly any 
boulders or striated rocks are on south slopes of the hill. 
