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beyond Forres, — gradually lessening in size and numbers, reaching 
to Elgin, Lossiemouth, and even farther e.ast. Pieces also occur on 
the shores of Loch Spynie [Fifth Report, pp. 74, 75). 
Mr Wallace of Inverness mentions having found a specimen of 
this Kinsteary granite beside Buckie harbour, about 20 miles 
east of Lossiemouth [Sixth Report, p. 49), and he has seen many 
smaller specimens in the fields. Neither rock nor boulders of this 
peculiar granite have been found uiest of ETairn. 
Northumberland. 
In Chillingham Park (Earl Tankerville’s seat), between Wooler 
and Alnwick, there is a large boulder of red porphyry, besides 
several small boulders of granite. The rocks there in situ are 
Carboniferous sandstones and limestones. The nearest localities 
for porphyry and granite are the Cheviot Hills, about 8 miles to 
"W.N.W., which reach a height of 1800 feet above sea. Many 
ridges and valleys lie in the intervening district [Fourth Report, 
p. 34, and Edin. Roy. Soc. Trans., vol. xvii. p. 35). 
Orkney. 
Eday. — Conglomerate boulder, about 8 tons, situated near top of 
hill, about 250 feet above sea, called Giant's Stone." Legend as to 
it having been thrown from island of Stronsay, where there are said 
to be Conglomerate rocks, of which none in Eday. Longer axis 
points S.W. and N.E. 
Patrick Neill, in his Orkney, Visit to, at p. 38, refers to “ the 
great Stone of E dap," as “a huge flag rising about 16 feet upright 
in the midst of a moor.” 
Frith and Stennis. — Peebles of white sandstone lie on the hills. 
Kocks of island are all red sandstone. 
Sanday. — Gneiss boulder about 14 tons. Rocks of island are 
Old Red Sandstone. At Stromness, 30 miles to S.W., gneiss rocks 
occur in situ. A legend that the boulder was thrown by a giant 
from Shetland [First Report, pp. 10, 44). 
The late Dr Patrick Neill states that, if this boulder came 
from Stromness, it would have to cross several arms of the sea 
in a distance of 34 miles, from W.S.W. [First Report, p. 44, and 
Second Report, p. 167). 
