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4. Sixth Report of the Boulder Committee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The materials for this Report have been obtained from the Convener, Professor Forster Heddle of St Andrews University, William Jolly, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Schools, Inverness, and William Wallace, Esq., High School, Inverness.

To make the descriptions of the boulders more intelligible, it has been found necessary, as in former Reports, to annex a few diagrams, which will be found at the close of the Report.

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Proceedings 1879–80
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 10 , 1880 , pp. 577 - 635
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1880

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page 578 note * With reference to Professor Nicol's view that the white granite boulders seen on the east and south coast of Cantyre came from parent rocks in Arran, it is right to notice that the late Rev. Mr M'Bride of Rothesay, who was a good geologist, and well acquainted with the rocks of the West Highlands, suggested a more northern source (Bryce “On Arran,” 4th edition, p. 337).

page 584 note * Tigh, dwelling; Drum, ridge or back.

page 588 note * In the “American Journal of Science and Arts” for 1877, reference is made to a boulder in Vermont, called “The Green Mountain Giant,” weighing about 3400 tons; and to twelve still larger in New Hampshire—the largest measuring 62 × 50 × 40 feet, and estimated to weigh nearly 6000 tons.