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IV. NOTES BY THOMAS D. WALLACE, Esq. 
On the Carried Boulders in the Parishes of Enzie and, Rathven. 
Banffshire. 
Having revisited this district at Christmas 1879, and examined it 
more carefully than on former occasions, I found further proof of the 
eastern flow of the great ice-sheet that at one time traversed the 
whole of the southern shore of the Moray Firth. In the neighbour- 
hood of the Enzie post-office, I found numerous boulders of the 
Dirriemore granite, none of them so large as those that were dug out 
during the excavations for the Buckie Harbour, and mentioned last 
year in the Committee’s Beport. 
Humorous small boulders of the Elgin Cornstones lie scattered all 
over the lower part of the district. Several are to be seen in the 
Gollaehy Burn, a little to the west of Buckie. 
Conglomerate boulders are rather rare. Except the few remaining 
stones forming the “Stone Circle of Dryburn,” near Portgordon, 
I found only one, about a quarter of a mile east from Dryburn. 
A very characteristic specimen of Kinsteary Granite is seen close 
beside the harbour of Buckie. Smaller pieces may easily be picked 
up on the fields along the shore. A well-marked feature of the 
schists which underlie the Old Bed Sandstone in this district, is the 
frequent occurrence of large veins of calc spar, quartz, and quartzites. 
Specimens of these are also numerous in the drift. 
A fine specimen of Cairngorm (water-worn) was picked up by a 
labourer on the high ridge to the south of the district, locally known 
as the “ Hill of Altmore.” It measures 2 inches thick at the one end 
and 3 inches at the other. It is about 4 h inches in breadth. This 
man, ignorant of its value, took it to Aberdeen and had it polished 
on both sides by some friend at the granite works. This has rendered 
it quite transparent, so that one can read with the greatest ease any- 
thing placed under it. 
One section of Boulder-Clay is deserving of notice. It is in the 
wood of Pathhead, on the estate of Cairnfield, a little to the south of 
the Enzie post-office. It consists of a fine plastic clay of a dark 
bluish-black colour, overlaid by the well-known red boulder-clay. 
The blue clay represents the denudation of the schists, and the red 
that of the Old Bed Sandstone. Notwithstanding a very minute 
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