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‘erratic blocks’ of Silurian Strata, had been drifted to higher levels 
on the limestone which covers those Silurians. The author does 
not suppose that this glacial ocean reached more than 1500 feet 
above the present level, and consequently believes that a large 
part of the north west of Yorkshire was not covered by its waters. 
The Botany of Ingleborough offers several peculiarities ; — and 
joining its history to that of the higher mountains in the north, 
which have traces of a Scandinavian Flora,’ the author expressed 
his concurrence in the views of Professor EK. Forbes, as to the 
former existence of land connecting Scotland and Scandinavia, 
and his belief that on the formation of the glacial sea, the summits 
of the highest Yorkshire mountains remained above the water, 
and were the retreat of peculiar plants now found in this part of 
Yorkshire, in the Grampians, and in Scandinavia. 
9. The author finally described a British Walled Camp, and 
the foundations of nineteen circular huts which had been dis- 
covered on the summit of Ingleborough, and concluded by 
remarking on the analogy and almost necessary connexion 
between certain branches of archeology and modern views of 
the geological history of the globe. 
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