of Eclinlurgli, Session 1883-84. 
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APPENDIX II. 
Summary op Facts contained in the Nine Annual Eeports op 
THE Committee, and op Inperences apparently deducible 
PROM THESE FaCTS, BEARING ON THE QUESTION, BY WHAT 
Agency Boulders were transported to their present 
Sites. 
I. Distrihidion of Boulders in Scotland. 
It might be possible to extract from the Eeports, approximately, 
the numhers of boulders in each county, so far as made known to 
the Committee. But these numbers would give a very incorrect 
idea of either the prevalence or the paucity, originally, of the 
boulders in different parts of Scotland , — firsts because counties vary 
extremely in size ; second., because from some counties the informa- 
tion sent was more copious than from others ; third, because in some 
counties, where agricultural impiwements have been extensive, 
boulders in thousands have long ago disappeared by wholesale ex- 
tirpation. 
In the absence of precise statistics, it may be stated generally, 
that there is no Scotch county where boulders do not exist, and 
that on all the islands, including the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetlands, 
and the Faroes, boulders are found. 
If, however, an opinion on this point is of any value, the Convener 
may say, that having visited two-thirds of the Scotch counties, to 
inspect and search for boulders, he considers that they are in much 
larger numbers on the West Coast, and the hills adjoining the West 
Coast, than on any other district of the same extent. 
