338 Mr. W. Kemp on the Moraines 



the theory of Prof. Agassiz. I therefore wrote to request Mr. 

 Kemp to publish this paper, and illustrate it by diagrams. 

 In his reply he modestly states that he had no design of doing 

 this, " being, as you will at once perceive, no fit person for 

 preparing papers for the press;" but he grants me full per- 

 mission to do so, if I think it worthy, and has inclosed the 

 accompanying diagrams, respecting which he says, " These 

 very rude and hasty sketches of those gullied tracts called the 

 Meigle Pots, together with the vale above Holilee, are pretty 

 correct, being copied from sketches taken on the spot. But 

 that of the vale of Galashiels is not so faithful, I having only 

 examined it in detail ; that is, the mounds round Gala House 

 are not at all drawn to the truth, I having as yet got no leisure 

 to take a plan, nor can I for many weeks to come." 



Mr. Kemp's account of the " Meigle Pots " is highly inter- 

 esting and important; and being, as far as 1 know, the only 

 instance as yet observed in Britain of this modification of gla- 

 cier action, it appears to me that I should have been remiss 

 had I not suggested its publication. To make it more intel- 

 ligible, I have given in a note an extract from a short but able 

 account of the Creux and Lapiaz of Prof. Agassiz, by the 

 talented editor of the ' Scotsman,' Mr. C. Maclaren. I will 

 only add, that some of the extensive mounds of gravel described 

 in the paper may possibly have been modified, if not originally 

 produced, by the subsequent action of torrents. 



J. E. Bowman. 



Manchester, 10th Feb., 1841. 



On the Moraines of Ancient Glaciers, Sfc. By Wm. Kemp. 

 Read to the Galashiels Geological Society, Jan. 29th, 1841 . 



Gentlemen, 



Having had my attention turned to this interesting subject, 

 first by Mr. Bowman's opinion that the terraces in this neigh- 

 bourhood, which I attributed to the action of water, are in 

 fact the moraines of ancient glaciers, besides having read in 

 the Athenaeum and other periodicals of Pi'of. Agassiz's dis- 

 covery of similar evidences in different parts of Scotland, &c., 

 I, among many others, hailed the announcement with great 

 pleasure, as conviction at once flashed upon my mind, that his 

 discovery, by the clear description given of those ancient mo- 

 raines, would at once apply to those beautiful combs or mounds 

 of gravel that have been so frequently noticed in many parts 

 of the country, of which no satisfactory account had hitherto 

 ever been given. How gratifying to the ardent followers of that 

 science, is the discovery of that great man, in pointing to, and 



