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of Edinlmrgli, Session 1883-84. 
with popular names, described in First Report, p. 42 [Lithograph No. 
34, Plate X.). There are granite rocks in hills to south, on which 
blocks of Old Eed Sandstone lie, and in such quantities that the}’’ are 
gathered for the building of walls. These blocks probably came from 
the north, where there are rocks of the same kind [First Report, p. 
42, and Second Report, p. 166) [Lithograph No. 36, Plate X.). 
On “ Piper's Hill," where rocks are Old Red Sandstone, a Con- 
glomerate boulder, weighing about 10 tons, lies on the N.W. side of 
a gravel kaim. These Conglomerate boulders are all mineralogically 
similar, being composed of quartz, limestone, syenite, felspar, and 
other hard angular pebbles. Most of them are partly buried in sandy 
drift. The district on which they lie slopes down towards N.W., 
and is about 200 feet above sea, from which distant about a mile. 
The longer axis of these boulders is chiefly N.W., and on that' 
side they present smooth surfaces, whilst east side is rough and 
angular (see Diagram 8 in Second Report, and p. 166, and also 
First Report, p. 42). 
Captain White of Ordnance Survey informed Convener that, 
having tried to find out where these boulders came from, he was of 
opinion that they had come from Ross-shire. 
He reported also having met with granite boulders (both red and 
grey varieties) — the largest 1 2 x 8 J x 8 feet, and with longest axis 
N.W. 
A kaim of gravel and sand, with steep sides, runs on an average 
E. and W. through parish, but occasionally deviates slightly from 
this direction. Its average height above adjoining district is 30 
feet [Second Report, p. 166). 
Ar detach . — In Bog of Fortnightly, about 5 miles distant from 
the sea, and about 270 feet above it, a Conglomerate boulder with 
live sides, having girth of 51 feet, and 9 feet above ground. The 
block is scarcely rounded at its edges and corners, and therefore has 
probably been carried, not pushed, rolled, or thrown down, but 
planted gently on its site. It is smoothest on N.W. side, roughest 
on S.E. It is surrounded by hills on every side except towards 
N.W. [First Report, p. 42). 
Kinsteary (about 2 miles S.E. of Nairn). — A peculiar flesh- 
coloured fine-grained granite rock is worked, blocks of which are 
stated by Mr Jolly of Inverness to have been transported eastwards 
