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“ Length. 9 ft. ; breadth 5 ft. ; height 7 ft. 
“ Rounded, but rather broader at base. 
“ Longest axis W. by 1ST. and E. by S., or W. and E. 
“ Different from any rock in locality ; none similar in locality so 
far as known. 
“ Conglomerate or pudding-stone of a most remarkably pronounced 
character. 
“ Popular name, “ Greystone ” ; no legend, save that it is called one 
of the Kirk stones,— origin of name unknown. 
“ 200 ft. above sea-level ; and J mile from sea on east coast. 
“ Marks the boundary between the old parishes of Wick and 
Canisbay, and between the lands of Nybster and Aukingill. 
“ I am sorry to say the answers refer to the stone as it teas. 
Some utilitarian individuals blasted it ; and part has been carted 
away ; but three large portions remain. When whole, it must have 
beeu a most remarkable stone.” 
Notes by Mr. Ralph Richardson ( a member of the Committee ) of 
a Visit by him to Strathnairn , in the Autumn of 1881. 
I drove last August (1881) from Inverness via Druids Temple 
and General Wade’s military road, to Strathnairn, crossing the 
River Nairn at Daviot, and proceeding down its right bank to the 
celebrated “TomRiach” boulder, returning via Clava and Culloden 
Moor, — a distance of about 20 miles. Shortly after passing 
Craggie Burn, Strathnairn, I was struck with the number of 
boulders dotting eminences throughout the valley, and with the 
depth of sand which covered the hills, — the whole pointing to a 
period of submergence in Post-Pliocene times. 
To make this still more evident, I may cite the interesting 
discovery last summer by Mr. James Eraser, C.E., Inverness, of 
Arctic marine shells at the height of 500 feet above the sea, at 
Drummore of Clava in this district, being the second highest 
discovery of the kind made in Scotland. Several of the shells 
discovered here being now only found in Arctic regions, the sea 
which once covered this district must have been of a decidedly 
glacial type. 
