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3. First Report by the Committee on Boulders appointed by the Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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In April 1871, a paper was read in this Society proposing a scheme for the conservation of boulder or erratic blocks in Scotland, in so far as they were remarkable for size or other features of interest. The Council of the Society approved of the scheme, appointed a committee to carry it out, and agreed to aid in meeting the expense of any circulars which might be necessary for conducting the inquiries.

The objects of the committee were twofold. They were first to ascertain the districts in Scotland where any remarkable boulders were situated; and, second, to select those which might be deemed worthy of preservation, with the view of requesting landed proprietors and tenants of farms not to destroy them.

The labours of the committee have as yet been directed only to the first of these objects.

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Proceedings 1871-72
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 7 , 1872 , pp. 703 - 751
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1872

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References

page 704 note * This list is in the Appendix.

page 706 note * Another translator represents this word to mean “of the swivel.”

page 710 note * The Rev. Mr Joass of Golspie refers to a boulder in Sutherland, called “Clach Mhic Mhios,” or stone of the Manthold son, believed to have been thrown from a hill two miles off by Baby Fingalian.

page 711 note * This legend is given more fully in “Scenery of Scotland,” p. 314, by Professor Geikie.

page 712 note * From “Flights of Fancy and Lays of Bon Accord.” By William Cadenhead Aberdeen. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1853.

page 715 note * New Stat. Acc. vol. x. p. 1007.

page 716 note * Proceedings Soc. of Scotch Antiquaries, vol. vi. 328.

page 716 note † This Boulder and its legend reported to the committee by Captain Thomas, R.N.

page 718 note * An account of this boulder was publiahed in Macmillan's Magazine for March 1868, by Professor Geikie.

page 721 note * “Hallow” fires were lighted on 31st October, and were called “Saimh-theine.” The “Beil-theine” fires were lighted on 1st May. These practices, formerly general in the Highlands of Scotland, were probably connected with the worship of the sun, whose departure in autumn, and return in spring, were signified by these rites. The Rev. Mr Pratt published an account of Buchan in the year 1858, and states (page 21), “Hallow fires are still kindled on the eve of All Saints, by the inhabitants of Buchan—from sixty to eighty fires being frequently seen from one point.” (Old Stat. Acct. of Scotland, vol. xi. p. 621, and vol. xii. p. 458.)

page 725 note * Another translator states that “Pulag” in Gaelic means a “dome.”

page 729 note * Rev. Mr Joass, of Golspie, states that granite occurs at a less remote locality.

page 729 note † Rev. Mr Joass states that conglomerate rock occurs to the westward at a less distance.