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Jedburgh. — Porphyry boulder, supposed to have come from 
Dunion Hill, which is 2 miles to the west. Pormerly a Granite 
boulder on this hill (seen by Convener), which must have come 
from Galloway or Dumfriesshire (First Report, p. 50). 
Neshit . — Hear the village (about 8 miles S.W. of Kelso) a green- 
stone boulder, identical in composition with rocks on Penielheugh 
Hill, on which stands Waterloo Pillar. Boulder is on a knoll, a little 
to H.W. of top of knoll. Penielheugh is S.W. from boulder, and 
about a mile distant. Transporting agent moved, therefore, here in 
a HE, direction. Hill is 774 feet above sea, and boulder 224 feet 
above sea. Eocks where boulder lies are Old Eed Sandstone. 
Ruber slaw. — On this hill a large boulder of greywacke found by 
Convener, lying on Old Eed Sandstone rocks. Hearest greywacke 
rocks in situ are about 3 miles to westward. If boulder came from 
these greywacke rocks it must have crossed low ground 800 feet 
below level of boulder (Edin. Roy. Soc. Trans., vol. xv. p. 454). 
Selkirkshire. 
Galashiels . — On the top of Meigie Hill, 1430 feet above the sea, 
there is a Silurian boulder 6 x 4J x 3J feet, with its longer axis 
H.W. and its sharpest end pointing in that direction. 
The boulder is on the east side of the apex of the hill, and 12 
feet below it. It is lying on drift. 
Meigie Hill is composed of Silurian rockSi It stands by itself ; 
there being no hills of equal altitude within some miles of it. 
Other boulders of a smaller size occur on the hill. They seemed 
to the Convener to be all erratics (Sixth Report, p. 30). 
Shetland. 
Br assay Island. — A number of coarse white sandstone boulders 
on east side of island, at heights of from 40 to 360 feet above the 
sea, differing from rocks in situ^ which consist of Conglomerate and 
Old Eed Sandstone flags. Largest boulder 10 x 7 x 4 feet. Its 
longer axis H.W. There are said to be distinct groovings on it, 
some of them 3 inches deep ; — their direction E. and W. Agent which 
striated rocks must in that case have crossed a valley at right angles 
(Dr Gordon of Birnie, Eeporter) (First Report, p. 43, and Second 
Report, p. 176). 
