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about 250 feet above the sea, there is a great boulder of granite. 
There is no granite in the island. The nearest place where that 
rock occurs is in the Ross of Mull, with an arm of the sea intervening. 
In the Island of Eday, in Orkney, there is a conglomerate 
boulder, called the “ Giant's Stone f about 8 tons in weight, near the 
top of a hill—the only one in the island—about 300 feet high. 
There is no conglomerate rock in Eday. But conglomerate rock 
occurs in the Island of Stronsay, situated to the south-east, a few 
miles distant. 
7. The report from the parish of Benholm (Forfarshire), by the 
Rev. Mr Myres, gives information and suggestions to the committee 
of considerable interest. On the sea coast of that parish, two sets 
of boulders are described. One set are supposed to have come from 
the Grampian range many miles to the north-west, and consist of 
granite and gneiss rocks. But another set, also consisting of pri¬ 
mitive rocks, are believed to be derived from a different source 
altogether, viz., from the great beds of conglomerate rock, which 
forms a band crossing the whole of Scotland from Stonehaven 
and Bervie, in a south-west direction, to Dumbarton and Rothesay. 
Some of the rounded masses in the conglomerate are stated to be 
several feet in diameter, and a few present appearances of striation; 
a fact which, if established, would seem to prove that, at a very 
early period indeed, ice action had existed, and had formed boulders 
just as it did at a later period. 
This report from Benholm parish was read lately at a meeting of 
the Geological Society of Edinburgh, and was illustrated by drawings 
and specimens which afforded strong evidence of the correctness of 
these views. 
8. With regard to kaims or long embankments of gravel or sand, 
there are twenty-three parishes reported to the committee as con¬ 
taining them. 
They appear to be most numerous in Aberdeenshire, Forfarshire, 
and in the east of Perthshire. In Kemnay parish there is a kaim 
said to be 2J miles long, running east and west. In Airlie parish 
there is a kaim 2 miles long, also running east and west. In Fet- 
tercairn parish, Kincardineshire, and also in Tarbet parish, Ross- 
shire, there are several kaims parallel to, and not far distant from, 
one another. 
