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cessful one, as shown from his numerous sections and 

 notes. A night spent at Stranraer enabled him to 

 examine the shores of Loch Ryan, well known from the 

 researches of the late J. Carrick Moore. " The best 

 sections are on the east side of the loch, which shows a 

 range of inland cliffs." Descrying one northward, they 

 drove back through the town, and a mile or two off the 

 Professor had the satisfaction of finding a fine section 

 with traces of two raised beaches. 



In the same patient painstaking journey from Stran- 

 raer to Wigtown he was impressed by the evidence of 

 widespread glaciation, and that a great ice-sheet must 

 have covered and slid over this part of Galloway, leav- 

 ing the rocks polished and striated. The route to 

 Dumfries, from the high bleak rocky district down by 

 a gradual descent into a pastoral country, and thence 

 among rich corn-fields diversified by wood and stream, 

 was of much interest. 



The Sunday at Carlisle was one of grateful rest, as 

 after morning service at the Cathedral rain interfered 

 with any walk until the evening, when it cleared, and 

 they were able from the bridge to have a view of the 

 grand sweep of the river and its banks. 



During the driving tour of the previous year certain 

 pits near Loughborough had been unvisited, therefore 

 Prestwich had planned the homeward journey so as to 

 include the stay of a night there. Travelling by the 

 then new portion of the Midland line through a beauti- 

 ful hill country, he attributed the greenness of the 

 grass in the Yale of Eden to the soil of the New Red 

 Sandstone. Ingleborough Hill having been passed, and 

 also the village of Settle, he was able to point out the 

 position in the cliffs of the Victoria Cave, and after a 

 run of some miles they glided through the rnanufactur- 



