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places, tlie rocks were covered by beds of boulder-clay, gravel, and 
occasionally sand. 
The Inspector of Works informed the Convener, that at the east 
end of the island, when removing a bed of shingle (about 60 feet 
above the sea), he had picked up out of the shingle two pebbles of 
red granite^ about the size of a hen’s egg. Thinking it curious to 
find granite there, he had laid them aside, but could not now 
find them. 
The Convener, having been informed that there was a shingly 
beach at the H.W. end of the island, descended to it, and found 
large pebbles of granite (both red and grey), gneiss, quartz, and hard 
Silurian rocks. 
On the highest part of the island (west of the Lighthouse) at 182 
feet above the sea, the rocks on portions of the hill facing the hl.W. 
have been planed down to even surfaces by some agency from the 
W. No striae were distinguishable {Sixth Report, p. 26). 
Morayshire. 
Dyhe. — Near west end of approach to Darnaway Castle several 
boulders of granite and gneiss, from 2 to 3 tons each. 
Forres. — Conglomerate boulder, 9 J x 8 x 8 feet, weighing about 44 
tons. It is situated on hill side fronting Cromarty, which bears 
N.W. by N., from whence boulders are supposed to have come 
across the Moray Tirth. 
Convener heard of another boulder of same description in a higher 
part of the hill, to the eastward. 
Elgin. — Boulder called “ Carlings Stone,'' on Bogton Farm, about 
230 feet above sea ; a coarse Conglomerate. About half a mile to 
N. W. a smaller Conglomerate boulder, called Young Carlin's Stone" 
{First Report, p. 31, and Second Report, p. 152). 
There are no Conglomerate rocks in the low-lying districts, where 
these boulders are situated. Wherever they have come from, they 
must have been carried. 
Conglomerate rocks exist in the hills to the south, distant 5 or 6 
miles. Convener was informed by Mr Martin, teacher, Elgin (well 
acquainted with the rocks of the district), that the Conglomerate for- 
mations in the hills are, in mineralogical composition, distinguishable 
