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low the range of oolitic rocks between Thirsk and Pockling- 

 ton, and commonly in gravel-pits and on the surface of the 

 coimtry around York. But this is by no means their eastern 

 limit ; for I have observed them of great size at several points 

 on the Yorkshire coast between Redcar and Scarborough, 

 where they are very plentiful on the shore, and are occasionally 

 found inland, as about 300 feet high in cutting a new road 

 toward Hackness, on the hill side above Scalby : and, to com- 

 plete the evidence, they are seen lying on the cliff at Flam- 

 borough head, above 100 miles from their native situation. 



An observer stationed on Shap fells sees the country to the 

 north and east a good deal lower than the point where the 

 granite appears in situ, and may therefore feel no particular 

 surprise that blocks should have been transported into the 

 vale of Eden ; nor does it appear strange that they should 

 have followed the vale of Lune to Lancaster. These effects 

 might possibly have happened in consequence of the bursting 

 of an elevated lake, according to Dr. Fleming's view ; but 

 that the bursting of such a lake, in the vicinity of Shap fells, 

 could effect the transport of granite blocks across the deep 

 vale of Eden, over the summit of Stainmoor, and down the 

 valleys and over the hills of Yorkshire, to Scarborough and 

 Flamborough head, I find myself incapable of admitting. 

 This case has always appeared to me decisive in favour of the 

 opinion, that the dispersion of gravel over large tracts is attri- 

 butable to the deluge. 



Fi'om the facts above mentioned, I am induced to suppose 

 that the flood of waters, which rolled away blocks of granite 

 from Shap fells, moved principally in an eastward or rather 

 south-eastward direction; and that the dispersion of fragments 

 toward other points may have happened, in consequence of 

 contemporaneous or subsequent minor currents, down the 

 valleys of Eden and Lune. 



The next I'ock, whose bouldered fragments I propose to 

 notice, occurs in situ on the precipitous sides of Carrock fell, 

 one of a group of Cumberland mountains lying to the north- 

 east of Skiddaw. It is a compound of white compact felspar 

 and large-grained dark hornblende, in variable proportion, 

 with here and there some magnetic iron-ore. 



To the north, bouldered blocks of great size are seen some- 

 what thinly scattered between Hesket, Newmarket, and Bol- 

 ton. I have noticed them near Kirk-Oswald, on high ground 

 west of the Eden : they abound about Lowther Castle ; and I 

 broke one large mass, which at the time I considered to be a 

 pebble of this rock, near Lord Darlington's smelt-mill at the 

 west pits in Durham. 



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