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Logie Coldstone .—This "parish thirty miles N.W. of Aberdeen. 
Surrounded at N.W. by amphitheatre of hills, of which 
Morven 2850 feet high. It contains numerous mounds of 
gravel and sand, in layers, showing action of water. They 
have the form of “kaims.” Though there are no boulders, 
there are pebbles up to a cwt. or more, imbedded in water- 
worn gravel and fine sand. The pebbles are of same rock as 
adjoining hills—gneiss, granite, and hornblende. Two sin¬ 
gularly shaped mounds, one 60 feet high, the other com¬ 
posed entirely of sand. They resemble the terminal moraines 
seen in the Grindelwald and other parts of Switzerland. 
Some years ago a number of boulders (from 3 to 6 tons in 
weight) were destroyed at a place situated to the north of 
this. They were of a soft, bluish granite, differing from any 
granite rock within a distance of nine or ten miles. One of 
these boulders might weigh 20 tons. This place had all the 
appearance of an ancient lake. The boulders may have been 
brought to it by same agency as that now seen on the Marjelin 
See, near Aletsch Grlacier. (Reporter—J. Gr. Michie, school- 
house, Coldstone, Tarland.) 
New Deer .—A great number of boulders, from 1 cwt. to several 
tons, lie in a sort of line for more than a mile S.E. from farm 
of Cfreen of Savoch, as far, at least, as the hill of Coldwells 
and Toddlehills, in parish of Ellon. Elsewhere they are 
mostly on surface. Locally called “Blue Heathens.” On 
Whitestone Hill, Ellon, and on Dudwick Hill, chalk flints 
are exceedingly abundant. (Reporter—James Moir, Savoch, 
by Ellon.) 
In this parish formerly there was a rocking-stone, called 
“ The Muckle Stone of Auchmaliddie.” On the Hill of Culsh, 
formerly a Druidical circle. About seventy years ago the 
stones were carried away to aid in building a manse. Farm 
where situated still called, “ The Standing Stones of Culsh.” 
(Rev. J. Pratt’s Account of Buchan, 1858.) 
Towie .—Stone of unhewn granite, standing about 7 feet above 
ground, on north side of river Don, near bridge. Sup¬ 
posed to be Druidical (“ New Statistical Account ” of 
parish). 
