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water, or by both, it is difficult to say. Their height above the sea 
is about 780 feet. On the hills, on each side of the railway, there 
are traces of horizontal lines on the detritus, which deserve better 
observation than could be given from the railway carriage. 
STIRLINGSHIRE. 
1. On Sheriffmuir, 3 miles from Bridge of Allan, near Blackford, 
there is said to be a large boulder, called Wallace’s Putting Stone. 
NORTHUMBERLAND. 
It was intended that only Scotch boulders should be inquired 
after by the Committee ; but it is not irrelevant to notice a 
boulder which, though now in England, was probably transported 
from a Scotch mountain. 
In Chillingham Park, the seat of the Earl of Tankerville, near 
Alnwick, there are several small boulders of granite. The rocks of 
the immediate neighbourhood are carboniferous sandstones and lime- 
stones. The nearest point for granite is the “ Big Cheviot,” eight 
miles to the W.KW., and reaching a height of about 1800 feet 
above the sea, The largest boulder is 3 feet 2 in length, 2 feet 
