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6. Notice of Two Localities for Remarkable Gravel Banks or Kaims, and Boulders, in the West of Scotland, in Supplement of the Boulder Committee's Tenth Report
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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About eight or ten years ago, when in Lochaber, studying the “Parallel Roads” problem, I became acquainted with a district in the valley of the River Spean, which presented the phenomena of gravel banks or kaims, and boulders, on a larger scale than I had ever before or have since met with.
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- Proceedings 1882-83
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1884
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note * page 916 Explanations of the Plates are appended to this notice.
note * page 921 As these pages were being printed, I received from my old and esteemed friend, Colin Livingston of Sort-William, a letter (dated 23rd September 1884) narrating an excursion he had a few days previously made to Glen Gluoy, and mentioning that at a height of about 1750 feet above the sea he had found several granite boulders on the side of a hill facing the west, and lying on quartzite rooks, which were smooth on their West sides and rough on their east sides. He adds that three of these boulders formed a line or trainée of abou a 100 to 120 yards. He became satisfied, from these facts, that the boulders had come up the glen from the westward, and not down the glen, as he had previously supposed. The nearest locality for granite rocks, known to him, is “Meallan-Suidhe,” situated some miles to the westward.
note * page 922 These places are named in the “Memoir on Parellel Roads,” by Professor Prestwick and me respectively.