of Edinhurgh, Session 1883 - 84 . 
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Glentuce . — The Rev. Mr Wilson reports the finding of water- 
worn nodules oi flints in beds of stratified drifts, at different places 
along the coast for about 6 miles. Various localities named, where 
flints were found by Mr Wilson in drift beds up to 200 feet above sea. 
He suggests that some of the drift materials probably came from 
Arran, and the flints from Armagh in Ireland {Ninth Report, p, 26). 
Faroe Islands. 
Though these islands form no part of Scottish territory, they are 
not so far from the Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetlands, as not to 
warrant some notice of their glacial phenomena. Moreover, having 
been visited by several Scotch geologists, who reported on them to 
the Edinburgh Royal Society, it may he allowable to add a few notes 
bearing on the boulders and rock striations of these islands 
I. Erratics. 
1. The first traveller who noticed the glacial phenomena of the 
Faroes was the Rev. G. Landt, a Danish clergyman, whose book was 
translated into English in 1810. 
In page 8 of his treatise he says ‘ —• 
“ There are sometimes to be seen in the valleys, single stones, 6, 
8, or 10 feet in diameter, in places where it is impossible they could 
have fallen dovm from the hills, SuOh stones are found also here 
and there, at a consideraMe height on the hills, where there is no 
other eminence in the neighbourhood, from which they might have 
rolled down.” He adds, a little farther on, that these stones are 
generally round ” in shape. 
2. Dr James Geikie, in his elaborate and valuable Memoir on the 
Faroe Islands, lately published in the Edinburgh Royal Society 
Transactions, vol. xxx. p. 260, says, under the head of E'nuimg, that 
“ large angular blocks of basalt rock are of common occurrence. 
Hear Thorshavn, many are of large size, measuring occasionally 
upwards of 20 feet across. They occupy positions which preclude 
the possibility of their having fallen or rolled down the hills ] and 
as they are now and again associated with moraine debris, I do not 
doubt they have been deposited during the melting of the ice-sheet ” 
(p. 250). . ... While perched blocks are quite absent from the 
