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boulders can be most readily explained by the action of floating ice ; of 

 such are the boulders of the Buttermere syenitic granite on the summit 

 of Starling Dodd (2084 feet), and this and other cases support the idea 

 that the submergence must even have reached to a limit of more than 

 2000 feet. 



A group of boulders of minette from the small patch on Sale Fell, 

 carried southwards on to Broom Fell, seems to prove that when the land 

 stood at about 1200 feet lower than at present, a current swept the north- 

 western outskirts of the district. 



Thus, it will be seen, what interesting facts as to the history of the 

 district may be learnt from the study of a boulder; it may .tell us of a time 

 when the land was glaciated much as parts of Greenland are at the 

 present day, also of a time when this district was a group of icy islands, 

 and may even reveal to us the direction of the currents in those ancient 

 and ice-laden seas. 



