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Immediately to the east of the houlders there is a level plateau or 
beach, which may have been formed by the sea, when it stood at a 
higher level. 
These boulders, Mr Alexander says, appear to have been trans- 
ported from a S.W. direction. There are low hills to the north- 
eastward, which probably obstructed them in their further progress 
to the eastward. 
6. Ardrishaig . — In ascending the hill to the west, on the lands of 
Auchindarroch, accompanied by Mr Alexander of Loch Gilpliead, I 
had pointed out to me by him a gneiss boulder, 9x7x6 feet, lying 
on a smoothed rock of clay slate. Its longer axis lay N. and S., its 
sharpest end being to the north. Another boulder, somewhat 
higher up, was seen, 16 x 13 x 6 feet, with its axis also N. and S. 
The slope of the hill here is down towards the S.E. These were 
at a height of about 300 feet above the sea. 
On going higher up the hill and coming to a slope facing 
N.N.E., I fell in with many other boulders of such sizes as the 
following — 9 x 7 x 6 feet, 8| x 7 x 4 feet. These two were on the 
same slope, and one above the other, at a distance of about 1 5 yards. 
They must certainly have come from some northern point. 
Berwickshire. 
In July 1880, I was requested by Captain Norman, B.N., to 
examine some boulders which he had discovered in a ditch on a 
roadside situated about a mile to the north of Berwick-on- 
Tweed. 
Having accompanied him to the spot, I found four boulders, each 
weighing from half a ton to one ton. Two of the boulders were of 
fine-grained granite, — one of them grey in colour, and the other 
with a shade of pink. They had most probably come from Cock- 
burn Law, situated about 15 miles (as the crow flies) to the 
N.W. — the only hill of granite in this S.E. district of Scotland. 
The other two boulders were a dark porphyry, Lamberton Hill, 
situated to the N. and N.N.W., about 2 miles off, is composed 
of porphyry of several varieties. The site of these boulders is 
about 250 feet above sea-level. 
