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rests on the rocky sides of the burn, jammed in between the sides. 
The boulder has some local name like “Jenny Meullen,” meaning 
“ House on a knoll.” The height of the boulder above the sea is 
about 226 feet. Its distance from the sea-beach is about three- 
quarters of a mile. The size of the boulder is about 24 x 18 x 12 
feet. It is most probable that the boulder was transported across 
the loch from the north or north-west, and was arrested in its 
further progress southward by the hill, on the north side of which 
it stands. 
Two sketches of this boulder are given on Plate II. figs. 1 and 2. 
2. Between the site of this boulder and the sea-beach an old sea 
margin occurs at a height of about 45 feet above the sea (medium 
level). A number of boulders lie along the line of this sea margin. 
There is an old sea margin on the opposite or west side of the 
loch, at exactly the same height — viz., 45 feet. 
3. Close to the beach in this part of Lochlong — i.e., about 8 or 
9 feet above high-water mark — at a place called “ Letter,” there 
lies another gneiss boulder, 12 x 8 x 8 feet. Its long diameter 
points N.W. by N.— viz., to Grlenfinnart Valley. 
4. Very near this boulder (about 100 yards to the north) the 
clay slate rocks have been ground down and smoothed. Their 
smoothed surfaces show numerous striae pointing N., 2° or 3° W. 
(magnetic). The smooth surface dips towards the north at an 
angle of 3° or 4°. 
5. On the hill above Carrick Castle, situated on Lochgoil, there 
is a boulder called “Clach udelain,” or the “Stone nicely balanced.” 
It is at a height of 1526 feet above the sea. This boulder is of 
gneiss, and lies on rocks of clay slate. It lies on a bare rock, the 
face of which slopes to N.N.E. — i.e., towards Lochgoil. The 
boulder is within three or four yards of the edge of a precipitous 
rocky cliff, which goes vertically down about 500 or 600 feet. The 
block is of enormous size. Unfortunately the note taken of its 
dimensions has been lost. This boulder, from its position, could 
not have fallen from any hill. There is no hill near it from which 
it could have fallen. 
A sketch of this boulder is given on Plate II. fig. 3. 
6. The next boulder visited is about two miles to the eastward of 
the last-mentioned, and is within a quarter of a mile of Lochgoil, 
