314 REPORT— 1900. 



A further extension of the known distributions of Shap Granite blocks 

 is furnished by the example reported from Gainsborough, and the interesting 

 Riebeckite-Eurite of Ailsa Craig has been recoi'ded from Delamere, in 

 the very heart of Cheshire. 



Cheshire. 

 Reported by Mr. J. Lomas, A.R.C.S., F.G.S. 



Birkenhead. — In cutting a sewer in Woodchurch Road, near Half- 

 way House, Boulder Clay about 25 feet thick ; boulder of diabase 3 feet 

 diameter. 



Delamere Forest. — Great spreads of sands and gravels. Group near 

 station contains Lake District andesites, Eskdale and Criffel granites, 

 Riebeckite- Eurite from Ailsa Craig. Flints. 



Shropshire. 

 Church Stretton, Watling Street — 

 CrifEel granite, 1 foot diameter. 

 Eskdale granite. 



Gravel Pit under Hazier Coppice, 800 ft. O.D. — 



Eskdale granite. 

 Buttermere granophyre. 

 Permian sandstone from north. 



Comley — 



Eskdale granite. 

 All Stretton — 



Triassic sandstone. 



North Wales. 



Llandrillo, near Bala. — Section of Drift nearly 100 feet high, cut by 

 stream near Cadwst, full of large boulders, many over 6 feet in diameter. 

 Nearly all ash and greenstone ; exposures of similar rocks a little 

 distance southwards. 



Greenstones increase in number on following up the stream Nant-cwm- 

 Dywyll as far as the firwood. To the east the ground is strewn with 

 large clusters of greenstone boulders. On the summit of the rising 

 ground the rock is found in situ, and shows roches moutonne'es and 

 striations from the south. No greenstone boulders are found in the low 

 ground south of the outcrop. 



Old Slate Qiiarry S. of Carnedd-y-ci. — Many quartzite and green- 

 stone boulders of large size resemble rocks found in situ on Cader 

 Berwyn, immediately to the south. 



Glyn Ceiriog. — Group of boulders in field just above cottage called 

 Pant. Some over 5 feet in diameter consist of Welsh felsites and 

 Denbigh grits. The grits, which are fossiliferous and beautifully striated, 

 occur in situ, to the north and west. On the hills to the south of Glyn 

 Ceiriog, Denbigh grits occur as boulders up to 1,250 feet. 



Yorkshire. 



Reported by the Yorkshire Boulder Committee (Mr J. H. Howarth, 



F.G.S., Secretary). 

 By Mr. H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., of Doncanter, 



Cushworth. 



I Dolerite. 



