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the striae run north and south. Examples occur on the old public 
road before-mentioned. 
(4.) An angular boulder of grey granite, 11 J x 7J x 7 feet, occurs 
at Inverlievern, on Loch Etive, above Bonawe Ferry. This boulder 
rosts on three or four smaller granite boulders, and these again on 
bare granite rock. There is no hill from which it could have 
fallen. It must have been transported. A sketch was taken. 
It rests on the 40 feet old sea-margin, which is visible round 
the greater part of Loch Etive. 
(5.) The Convener was informed of two very large boulders in the 
district between Loch Etive and Glen Lonan, at places called Auch- 
nacoshen and Duntarnichan. But he was unable to reach them. 
10. Fasnacloich on Loch Creran . — Captain Bedford, B.H., wrote 
to the Convener, calling his attention to a large boulder which he 
had seen when surveying for the Admiralty. He sent a description 
of it, and mentioned that its average girth was 30 feet. 
The Convener discovered the boulder. It had recently been 
blown up into four or five fragments, with a view to being used 
for building a bridge. But they were found unsuited for the 
purpose, being too hard for masons’ tools. The rock consisted of a 
dark porphyry, with which the Convener was unacquainted. 
Mr Hall, the tenant of the farm of Easnacloich, on which Captain 
Bedford’s boulder was situated, conducted the Convener to a spot, 
about a mile higher up the glen, where there were multitudes of much 
larger boulders of the same species of rock. The spot proved to be a 
mass of detritus, consisting of water-borne gravel, forming a sort of 
terrace abutting against the hill, which forms the north-east side of 
Glen Creran. This terrace is covered by numerous boulders, some of 
very large size. A view of one of them is given in fig. 8, Plate I. 
This boulder has the Celtic name of “ Fas-na-cloich” or “ Fas- 
na-clachf which means “ stone with growth,” — referring to three 
trees growing on it, two on the top being firs (each about 15 feet 
high), — one at the side, a stunted oak. The name of the farm 
occupied by Mr Hall, and of the residence of the proprietor, Captain 
Stewart, is Easnacloich, so-called, most probably, after the boulder. 
The boulder with the three trees on it is about 25 yards in girth ; 
its length is 23 feet, its width 15, and its height, in so far as visible 
above ground, is 15 feet. 
