of Edinhurgh, Session 1883-84. 
875 
Gaelic for Stone f Mhief of a son^ Mhiosf of a month; this 
name having been given by legend, that stone was thrown from a 
hill 2 miles distant by a child of Fingal, when only one month 
old {First Report, p. 10). 
West and North Goastsi — The late Eobert Chambers visited the 
west coast of Sutherland, travelling round by Cape Wrath, and 
along the north coast as far as Tongue Bay, with the following 
results : — 
1. At a height of 1700 and 1800 feet, he found strise on the 
rocks of Cuineag and Ganish (quartz hills in Assynt, about 30 miles 
north of Gairloch), running from about 60° W. with certain 
exceptions. One of these exceptions was at the base of Gidneag, 
where the streaks are from the direct north, apparently by reason of 
a turn or deflection which the agent had there received at and 
hy reason of the base of an adjoining hill. Another exception was 
at the hollow dividing the mass of the hill from its loftiest 
top, where another system of streaking had come in from the 
direct west. 
2. On a summit south froni Ben More^ fully 1500 feet high and 
4 or 5 miles to the south of Cuineag, there are streakings on the 
quartz, observing the normal direction of this general movement, 
viz., from N. 60° W. 
3. On the gneissic platform between Gout More and Sulvean Dr 
Chambers found polished surfaces striated from N.W. and from 
W. To the west and north of the latter mountain are markings 
in all respects similar. These are situations, observes Chambers, 
where no local glaciers could exist. 
4. Streakings precisely the same as those on Cuineag and Canish 
exist at an elevation of at least 2000 feet on the similar quartz 
mountain called Ben Eay, south of Loch Maree, and 40 miles from 
Assynt ; — this striation being from NW, or thereabouts, anS totally 
irrespective of the form of the hill. 
5. Passing northward to Rhiconish, we find near that place striae 
coming in from the coast, viz., from the hf.W., and passing across a 
high moor, with no regard whatever to the inequalities of the 
ground.” 
6. A little farther north, at Laxford, a fine surface is marked 
with striations from the 17. W., being across the valley in ivhich is 
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