When I was staying at Pitlochry in August 1883, I received a letter from our President, Mr Milne Home, in which he said:—‶There is a very remarkable Boulder (for size) at Strath Loch, to the east of Pitlochry, which I would recommend to be visited. It is referred to in some of my Boulder reports.1 On your way to it you will pass another Boulder, on a muir to the north of the road, which goes by the name of the Gledstone Boulder, and is said to give its name to an ancestor of the Premier, who was a foundling left at the foot of the Boulder.″ Such a delightful mixture of the romantic and scientific made me drive at once to Strath Loch (pronounced Stra’ loch), a hamlet some nine miles distant from Pitlochry in a north-easterly direction. I had a very intelligent driver, but it was not till we arrived at Strath Loch inn that we heard of ‶The Gled stane,″ for my driver (who had driven past it for years) had never heard of it, and none of the people he questioned on the road knew of it. The innkeeper at Strath Loch, however, had heard of it many years ago, and described its position so minutely that we at last discovered it. The ‶Gled stane″ is a huge boulder of mica-schist, 25 yards in circumference, 5 yards in length, 6 yards in diameter, and 10 feet in height. It is situated about a quarter of a