The Probable Existence ok Lake Dwellings in Cumber- 

 land. — There can be little reason to doubt that the Lake Country 

 of Cumberland and Westmorland must once have furnished many 

 eligible building sites to the ancient lake-dweller But situations 

 much more like those of the Galloway crannoges cire very common 

 in N. Cumberland towards the shores of the Solway. The Bowness 

 peninsula especially abounds in them. It is by no means improb- 

 able that the great peatmoss which stretches from Cardurnock to 

 Glasson may have been in the Roman period mainly or wholly a 

 shallow lake, with islands rising from it here and there, as at 

 Rogersceugh and towards Cardurnock. Indeed the remains of 

 such a lake (now drained) are shown in the map in Hutchinson's 

 " History of Cumberland," between Cardurnock and Anthorn. 

 Near VVigton, again, N.E. of Oulton, we have Moorhouse (or 

 Martin) Tarn, which must once have been about ten times its 

 present size, the remainder of its former area being now peatmoss. 

 Then we have the singular group of former lakes and morasses in 

 the neighbourhood of Rockcliff, the peaty portions of which may 

 perhaps hide prehistoric remains of interest. Hutchinson's map 

 shows a small lake in this locality. Many other promising neigh- 

 bourhoods might be mentioned, but enough has been said to show 

 that Cumberland is by no means destitute of spots likely to repay 

 the explorer of ancient lake-dwellings. 



T. V. H. 



Some Additional Notes on the Land and Freshwater 

 Shells of Cumberland and Westmorland. — In the Trans- 

 actions, Part vii., 1881-82, p. 51, a list is given of the Land and 

 Freshwater Shells found in Cumberland and Westmorland previous 

 to that time. I think it may now be of interest to record the 

 names of the species which have since been found, as well as to 

 give additional localities for some of the more uncommon species 

 noticed before. The number of species previously recorded was 

 seventy-five, and to this number I now add three species, making 

 a total of seventy-eight ; the names of five more varieties found in 



