244 Armstrong : Glacial Evidences near Harrogate. 



above Pateley. There is an entire absence of limestones. All 

 are ground and polished, and some are deeply striated and ice 

 scratched. Most of the larger fragments are of the same class 

 of stone, viz. — a hard, fine-grained white grit, almost a 

 quartzite, flat-bedded in nature, and from their appearance these 

 have travelled the farthest. The dimensions of a few of the 

 largest stones are 4' 6^x3' 6"xi' o" ; 4' o"X2' s'^Xi' 6"; 

 2' o" X 2' o" X i' o" ; 4' o" X i' 6" X i' 3". The field is situated 

 upon the north side of the road, and is No. 34 upon the 25 inch 

 Ordnance Map No. CLIII-15. 



Scores of acres of land in the immediate vicinity, now 

 clothed with ling and gorse, were under cultivation forty 

 or fifty years ago, and produced five quarters of wheat to 

 the acre. From indications in many of the fields surrounding 

 No. 34, such as glacial boulders built into the walls, and large 

 heaps of stones of the same origin still existing in the field 

 corners, it is evident that similar conditions prevailed over all 

 this area when the land was first brought under the plough. 

 At the present time several of these long-neglected allotments 

 are in course of re-cultivation, and cart-loads of boulders, many 

 of large size, are still being encountered. 



During the last few weeks, six or more large glacier-borne 

 boulders have been turned up in making a tennis-lawn at the 

 north-west corner of Duchy Road, Harrogate. At this point 

 four to six feet of glacial clay overlays the upturned edges of 

 the Kinderscout grit. The six stones I have examined are 

 principally of ovoid form, all of local grit, and three are 

 deeply striated upon the under side. Some of them wxre also 

 marked by the plough, but the glacial striations are very dis- 

 tinct therefrom. Most of these have been broken up, and also 

 several others which I had not the opportunity of previously 

 examining. The measurements of the largest were 3' 6"x 

 2' 6" X 2' 6" ; the remainder averaged about 3' o" X 2' o" x i' 8". 



In the Floodborough (Lanes.) district it has been recommended that 

 the black-headed gulls be excluded from the Wild Birds' Protection Act, 

 as it has been ascertained that they feed almost exclusively on young 

 cockles, which they pick out of the sand, and are consequently harmful 

 to the cockle-beds. At a meeting of the Wharfedale Chamber of Agricul- 

 ture held at Otley recently, it was agreed to recommend to the Central 

 Chamber of Agriculture that steps be taken to exclude the green linnet 

 and the bullfinch from the Wild Birds' Protection Order. It was also 

 stated that the skylark was most destructive. 



Naturalist^ 



