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are either bare, or easily exhibited from beneath a thin coating 

 of moss ; and they exhibit, in the most unequivocal way, 

 proofs of mechanical action. From a very high point of 

 the ridge (if not from the highest point), there are the 

 clearest marks of abrasion, mechanically, and that, not by 

 solid substances, but by water. How tbe water contrived to 

 reach the hill, or how the hill bowed its head, and submitted 

 its face to the water, is another consideration. The facts, 

 however, are those which have been stated. 



Descending again to the bottom of the hill, it is impossible 

 to disregard other indications of the former presence of 

 water. For example, a considerable portion of the extended 

 brickfield, and especially the ground at the foot of the 

 cliff, is covered with a peculiar kind of sand, indurated in 

 some places, and loose in others, but, in all cases, such as 

 the course of a river would deposit. An examination of 

 this sand brings to light new facts : it is found, to con- 

 lain, in some places, considerable quantities of shells, pre- 

 cisely of the same kind as those now found in the estuary 

 of the Mersey. Some of these are well known as the Turi- 

 tellites, the Lutrea compressa, &c, &c. 



From the point where we have supposed the inquirer to 

 be situated, the eye can take in an interesting district of 

 country. The whole may be regarded as an extended plain, 

 bounded on the right by the hill, on the side of which 

 Liverpool is built, and on the left, by the ridge of Wirral. 

 Down the eastern side of this plain, the river Mersey finds 

 a channel, while the plain itself sweeps round the north end 

 of Bidston and Flaybrick, and extends towards the Dee. 

 On the west side of this plain, the observer is reminded of 

 Holland, as not a single hill nor even an eminence of any 

 kind presents itself, in an area of several square miles, till the 

 eye rests on the artificial dike or sea-wall, at Lcasowe and 

 Mockbeggar. 



We notice, however^ one projection, rising like a little 



