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This peculiar granite, which can easily he distinguished wherever it 
occurs, is found abundantly to the eastwards of its original position. 
In all the dykes and houses in and round Auldearn, and all over the 
Moyness district, it may be seen as the most abundant rock. It ex- 
tends eastwards beyond Torres, gradually lessening in amount but 
still abundant, over the flats of Kinloss and up on the high ridge of 
Burgie to its summit above the Douping Stone , and beyond Elgin 
to Lossiemouth and further east. Pieces of it may be seen on the 
shores of Loch Spynie near the blocks of conglomerate already 
mentioned.* 
The foregoing are the chief examples of travelled boulders found 
on the south shores of the Moray Firth. Many others occur, but 
these have been mentioned because they consist of rocks of a 
more or less pronounced character, easily distinguished where seen ; 
therefore furnishing important evidence as to the direction 
and extent of the transporting agents. From the map, it will 
be seen that the general direction of movement of these 
blocks has been eastwards, but chiefly from S.W. to N.E., 
parallel to the trend of the coast of the Moray Firth at. this part. 
None of these rocks are found to the west of the points in situ where 
the parent rock is found ; at least, I have found none, and I speak 
from a pretty extensive knowledge of the district. What the trans- 
porting agent or agents were — whether glaciers, or icebergs, or ice- 
floes, or water currents, or one or more of these together — however 
interesting and important — it would be foreign to the purpose of 
the present paper to consider ; but that these rocks were carried from 
their native sources and scattered widely and numerously to the 
eastwards, over a large extent of country, cannot for a moment be 
doubted, f 
WILLIAM JOLLY, 
H. M. Inspector of Schools, Inverness. 
* I have no notes of the distribution of these boulders east of Lossiemouth. 
Mr Wallace, head master of Inverness High School, and a good geologist, tells 
me that he saw recently large blocks of both the Dirrie More and Kinsteary 
granites at Buckie in Banff, dug out of the new harbour. It would be inter- 
esting to ascertain how far east these easily distinguished rocks have been 
carried. 
t The author purposes entering into greater detail in regard particularly to 
the remarkable carried blocks of the valley of the Nairn, in a special paper on 
the glaciation of that valley. 
