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sea. It also was a coarse red granite. It was about 30 yards in girth, 
and 14 or 15 feet in height. It is known as “ The Glen Morrison 
Stone,” probably because of being the largest boulder in the glen. 
This boulder is on a flat, and in looking across the valley, a 
terrace is seen which corresponds in level with the boulder. 
In several parts of the hill the boulders were in clusters or groups, 
piled over one another. 
It deserves notice that all these boulders were resting on gravel 
and sand ; and that the hills on both sides of the valley were thickly 
covered with detritus. 
The gamekeepers spoke of a very large boulder at Clachnaharry, 
about 16 feet high, on the south side of Loch Clunie, which is two 
or three miles to the west of Glen Doe. The Convener saw it 
through his glass. 
It may be added here, that Mr Ellice of Invergarry informed 
the Convener of a large bed of pure white sand, which he could not 
distinguish from sea sand, existing on a property belonging to him 
in that district, at a height of about 1000 feet above the sea. 
MID-LOTHIAN. 
1. In September 1877 the Convener visited excavations on the 
north side of Craiglochhart Hill , about two miles S. W. of Edinburgh. 
His attention was drawn to them by Mr Hutchison of Carlowrie. 
These excavations were in the boulder clay. A number of 
boulders had been exposed, and were still undisturbed in their 
original positions. 
The largest was angular, the smaller boulders w r ere comparatively 
round. The greatest number were of blue whinstone rock. Among the 
smaller boulders, there were some of sandstone. The contractor for 
a large new building about to be erected being present, had his 
attention drawn to the sandstone boulders, and was asked if he 
knew any rock of the same kind which was in sufficient quantity to 
be quarried 1 He said that the sandstone of Hailes Quarry and Red- 
hall Quarry was the same rock as that of the boulders. On being 
asked to point out the direction of these quarries from where the 
boulder lay, he pointed in a direction which was N.W. (by com- 
pass) A 
* These quarries are about a mile distant from the site of the boulders. 
