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the boulder is situated, but generally record other features of 
interest. 
The committee entertain a hope, that were this wish on their 
part made known, some geologists, who may be either resident in 
Scotland or who may purpose to visit Scotland during the course 
of the ensueing summer or autumn, might offer their services in 
the way, and for the purpose now suggested. In that case, the 
committee would willingly lend the reports which they have received, 
on condition that the results of the inspection were made known 
to the committee. 
The committee will place in the library of this Society, the list 
of boulders before referred to, showing the parishes in each county 
in which the boulders and kaims are situated, so that any person 
may see where these parishes are, and be able to judge whether it 
would be convenient for him to visit these. 
Were this list published, and generally circulated, good would 
result in another way. As it would show all the parishes from 
which reports of remarkable boulders and kaims had come, some 
persons might be able to discover parishes from which reports had 
been omitted to be sent, and if these w T ere pointed out to the 
committee, they would make the requisite inquiry. 
II. The committee proceed next to notice points of archceological 
interest connected with boulders. 
1. The committee were surprised with the large number of 
individual boulders possessing names by which they were known 
in the district. 
The names may be classified under several heads :— First , there 
are names having reference to the agency by which the boulders 
were supposed to have come into the district. Second , there are 
names indicative of the use to which boulders were put. Third , 
there are names making the boulders commemorative of certain 
events. 
Many of the boulders, besides having a name, have also a legend, 
which explains and illustrates the name. 
The Giant's Stone , FingaVs Putting Stone , the Witches Stone, 
the Carlin Stone, Heathens , Hell Stones, the Deil's Stone, 
the Deil's Putting Stone , the Deil's Mother's Stone ,—these are 
among the names, almost all in the Gaelic language, which ap- 
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