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the watershed of England, north of Colne. Tliis would be a much less 

 up-and-down- hill route than the other. 



The only other boulder of this rock I found was on Habringham 

 Eans, about one mile south of Burnley. This was at an elevation of 

 between 700 and 800 ft., and must have been carried by ice which was 

 working its way towards Todmorden. This is the furthest ; 23 miles 

 from Malham Tarn, and borne along a line S. 10° W. If from Norber it 

 has travelled about 24i miles along a general route of S. 10° B. 



It will be seen in either case the route has been but very little de- 

 flected from a N. and S. line. These facts tend to bear out the truth of 

 some statements made by me in 1871 to the Geological Society of London ' 

 that the general movement of the ice-sheet in this part of England, as 

 shown by the boulders and by the glaciated rocks on which they lie, 

 was to the soiitli, parallel to the watershed of England and not away 

 from it. 



Staffordshire and Shropshire. 



Mr. Fred. W. Martin furnishes the Committee with the subjoined 

 catalogue of boulders in these counties previously unrecorded. 



He is still engaged in their investigation, and will continue the cata- 

 logue in subsequent reports. 



The collection is mainly a mixture of blocks from the Lake district 

 and from the S.W. of Scotland, although a few scattered among them 

 may be from the Cheviots. 



So far as the present observations indicate the Welsh distribution has 

 very sparsely, if at all, reached this district. 



Sliifnal to Tong. 



1. At junction o£ road to Upton, hornblendic granite (gneissoid), very liard and 



heavy and porphyritic ; Eskdale ? Sub-angular ; 2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 3 in. ; 

 rough surface. 



2. On road just beyond stream. ' A syenite or diorite (slightly gneissoid), probably 



Scotch, not Lake or Welsh ' (Bonney). Sub-angular ; 2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 

 6 in. ; rough surface. 



3. In field, granite (of Criffel type) ; rounded; 2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. C in. ; rough 



surface. 



4. Coarse Eskdale granite ; rounded ; 2 ft. (i in. by 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 3 in. ; rough sur- 



face. 



5. In ' Spinney ' on left. ' A tine-grained hornblendic granite, poor in quartz ' 



(Bonney). Buttermere ; rounded ; 2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 6 in. ; smootli. 



6. Near gate, opposite last, augite andesite ; angular ; 2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 6 in. b)' 



1 ft. 3 in. ; rough surface. 



7. On left, just beyond last ; epidote vein protruding. ' Felstone witli epidote 



not unlike Bardon Hill rock, but probablj' Welsli '(Bonney). Sub-angular; 

 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 3 in. by 1 ft. ; smooth and striated. 



8. By entrance to lodge gates ; coarse black granite (probably South Scotland) ; 



sub-angular ; 3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. (J in. 



9. Under trees at junction of road to Long Norton ; quartz felsite ; square, broken 



edges ; 3 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. out of ground. 



10. At opposite corner to last; granite of CrifEel type; sub-angular; 3 ft. 6 in. 



by 2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in. ; rough. 



' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1872, 'On the Evidence for the Ice-sheet in West- 

 morland,' &c. 



