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(Stainmooi) and thence eastward, hemmed in on each side by 

 ice-streams from the uplands of Teesdale on the one hand, and of 

 Svvaledale and Arkendale on the other, by way of Barnard Castle 

 and Darlington to the Vale of York. Here it joined, and reinforced, 

 part of the stream that had travelled round by the Tyne Valley 

 and Durham, and, like that stream, was turned southwards by the 

 influence of the Scandinavian ice, and forced in a gradually- 

 diminishing mass still southwards, through Yorkshire into Lincoln- 

 shire and Nottinghamshire. Traces of an advance even further 

 south than that are said to have been made out. 



While the Edenside stream itself was moving inland and uphill 

 either as a whole, or on one horizon or other in its vertical extent, 

 the local ice still continued to move outwards from the larger 

 masses of high land. This fact was shewn clearly enough in the 

 paper published in the Quarterly Journal, above cited. But in 

 many places the directions of movement were, as might be expected, 

 considerably modified by the influence of outside causes. And 

 this modification proceeded so far in some places as to turn the 

 higher currents of ice into directions very different from those 

 taken by the ice at a lower level. To this point I shall return 

 presently. But one result of such action was that the higher 

 currents of the great mass of confluent glaciers around Shap 

 (where I have already pointed out that a wide depression of the 

 physical axis of the Lake District hills occurs) overflowed in the 

 direction of least resistance there, and streamed away from the 

 north side of the Lake District along a gradually-widening zone 

 parallel to the Lune Valley, past Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, and 

 Lancaster to the low grounds beyond. With this southward over- 

 flow went large quantities of Edenside rocks, notably large numbers 

 of boulders of Shap Granite. 



West Cumberland Dispersion. — Much of the ice of West Cum- 

 berland, south of a point near Cockermouth, appears to have gone 

 southward under all circumstances. The main thrust of the 

 Scottish ice was diametrically opposite that of the ice from the 

 English hills somewhere to the north of that town. And it seems 



