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presence of cornstone protecting the Old Red Sandstone from demidation and 

 thus leaving our fine rounded hills. The elevation on which they now stood was 

 due to the hard cornstone which protected it, and which is quarried at the back 

 of the hill. The lecturer finished his very eloquent and interesting address by 

 calling on the members of the Clubs to study well the Geological landmarks about 

 them, and trace from them as they always might, the wonderful effects that had 

 been produced by the action of marine currents acting upon the old sea beds as 

 they rose to the surface, and by the various forces of subaerial agencies, rain, 

 rivers, frost, snow, and land ice which in preglacial, glacial, and postglacial times 

 combined to form the existing contour of the land now inhabited by beings 

 capable of reasoning on the marvels of its structure. 



The lecturer was much applauded. 



Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., then gave the following— 



