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rocks were found smoothed from the H.W. A portion of smoothed 
quartz was found here also. 
11. The Convener drove along the coast from Barvas village to 
Dalbeag, a distance of about 9 miles. He was unable to reach 
Dalbeag hills, about 2 miles farther on. He could see, however, 
that these hills presented large surfaces of bare rock on their west 
sides. He ascended one or two other hills of granite situated close 
to the sea, and up to a height of about 380 feet. On these hills 
he found abundance of smoothed rock surfaces sloping down to 
W.H.W. In one case only, the direction was somewhat abnormal, 
viz., west by north. 
About half a mile to the east of Dalbeag farm-house there is a 
steepish bank facing the sea (which is due west, and only a quarter 
of a mile distant), surmounted by a cliff, as shown in fig. 33. The 
bank is about 50 feet high, and is covered by boulders and gravel. 
On the very top, viz., about 285 feet above the sea, the bare granite 
rock has been planed down and is occupied by a number of boulders. 
The only boulders which showed direction of transport indicated a 
H.W. direction. 
At Sheabost, a place between Dalbeag and Barvas, notice was 
taken of a remarkable assemblage of gravel knolls on both sides of 
the road, but not forming a continuous kaim. These knolls were 
approximately elliptic in shape, the longer axis being about 50 or 
100 yards, their breadth 10 or 12, and their height from 20 to 
30 feet. Most of these gravel knolls have their longer axis running 
in nearly the same direction, viz., north and south. Large boulders 
lie on these knolls, and mostly on the west sides. 
The boulders were in some places piled above one another. The 
uppermost showed from their position that they had come from the 
westward. The height of these knolls above the sea is about 1 30 
feet. The distance from the sea-coast is about half a mile. 
Hearer Barvas village there is a lake called Hrraghay, on the west 
side of which there is a remarkable assemblage of large boulders, 
some of them granite, forming a sort of trainee running W.H.W. 
Ho rock is visible here. The ridge on which the boulders lie seems 
to be composed of coarse water-borne gravel. One of the largest 
boulders measured 12x10x5 feet. Its longer axis lay W.H.W. 
The uppermost boulders indicated transport from the H.W. 
