342 REPORT—1890. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 
Mr. Bernard Hobson, B.Sc., F.G.S. (Assistant Lecturer in Geology, 
Owens College), forwards an account of two boulders dug up in making 
a new sewer in Granville Road, Fallowfield, near Manchester. The 
nearest bench-mark is 115-7 ft., and as the ground is very flat in the 
neighbourhood, that will be about the height of Granville Road. Both 
boulders were about 14 ft. below the surface, and in the boulder clay. 
Boulder A, well rounded; no striw; size, 2 ft. 2 in. x 1 ft. 6 in. x 
1ft.5in. Itisa Buttermere syenite. Specific gravity 2°61. 
Boulder B, subangular; flattish ; size, 2 ft. 10 in. x 1 ft. Qin. x 
lft. lin. It is striated transversely in the direction of the 1 ft. 9in. 
measurement. It is an andesite, and agrees pretty closely with the very 
large boulder found in 1888 opposite No. 266 Oxford Road, Manchester, 
and which is mounted on a pedestal in the Owens College quadrangle. 
Specific gravity 2°8. 
Specimens of both boulders have been deposited in Owens College 
Museum. The Committee would strongly urge that this example should 
be generally followed, and that a specimen of any boulder found in any 
locality should be placed in the nearest museum, with a careful note of 
the exact spot from which it was taken. 
The subjoined notes of erratics have been received from Mr. Percy 
F. Kendall, F.G.S. :— 
Erratic blocks—(1) On the cutting of the Manchester Ship Canal 
about a quarter of a mile west of the Trafford Road Bridge, Old Trafford, 
Manchester. Size 6x45x3 (+) feet; in shape subangular. The 
eastern end is well rounded, and the western angular (not subangular). 
Its longest axis is almost precisely H. and W. (true, not magnetic); the 
north side is well scratched in the direction of long axis. It is a Coal 
Measure sandstone containing fragmentary plant-remains. The sand- 
stone is bluish-grey within, but weathers externally, and to a depth of 
about 3 to 2 inches, to a tea-green colour and is then very soft. 
This boulder rests upon boulder clay, and is surrounded by old silts 
and gravels of the river Irwell. The Irwell is distant about 150 yards. 
Two smaller stones weighing about one hundredweight each lay alongside 
the one here described. They are of identical composition, and it is an 
important fact that about six months ago (June or July 1889) several 
large boulders of the same sandstone were met with in the boulder clay 
at a distance of 50 to 100 yards away. In the river-gravels at the same 
place many stones, large and small, of the same sandstone are to be ob- 
served. In the course of a careful examination of the whole line of the 
canal, I have not observed this sandstone elsewhere. 
(2) Just north of Windgather Rocks, Taxal, Cheshire. Approximate 
weight, 2 tons; rounded; has been moved; not scratched, or scratches 
not preserved. It is an Eskdale granite (sheared or cleaved variety). 
It is 1,150 feet (by aneroid) above the sea. The Photographic Section 
of the Stockport Society of Naturalists has a good photograph. It is 
not connected with any long ridges of gravel or sand. It rests upon the 
Millstone Grit. 
(3) A little to the north of the Windgather Rocks, Taxal, built into 
a wall beside a stile about 200 yards from farmhouse. Approximate 
weight, 2 tons; rounded; has been moved; no striz visible. It is a 
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