196 REPORT—187+4. 
Answers. 
1. The isolated boulder lies in the division of Icornshaw in the town- 
ship of Cowling, Sutton, in the parishes of Kildwick and Keighley. See 
Ordnance Map (185) Yorkshire. 
2. At least 20 yards round and some 8 yards high above ground. 
3. Angular, but one or two rounded corners. 
4, The boulder nearly square, but very irregular. Its longest axis from 
east to west. 
5. There are some marks, but more like what would appear from washings. 
The markings are in the softer parts of the stone. 
6. Composed of Millstone-grit, and no rock similar excepting Hanging 
Stone Quarry. This stone is within 2 inches of south left-hand corner of 
Ordnance Map (sheet 185). Hanging Stone Quarry is 4 to 5 inches north, 
so will be near a mile off. 
7. Popularly known as Hitching Stone on Hitching Stone Hill. 
8. About 1175 feet above the sea, 
11. Perfectly isolated; but within some few hundred yards there are others, 
but of much smaller dimensions. 
12. On heath, and the bottom of stone may be imbedded. 
LANCASHIRE. 
Two large boulders are reported by Mr. Latham, which he describes as “ap- 
parently granite,’ in the lane called Birkdale Cop, Scambrick, Lancashire. 
One is much larger than the other, and is 2? x 7} x7 yards, and lies about 23 
miles in a direct line from the coast of the Irish sea, and is only 3 of a mile from 
the Moss, which lies between the sandstones on the coast and the clay land. 
The other is in a brick-yard at Snape, 2 of a mile more inland, and was found 
in the clay. 
Miptanp District. 
In the Midland district the plan suggested by the Geological Section of the 
Birmingham Natural-History Society, and described in the last Report, is 
being actively carried out. The minuteness of detail attempted will necessarily 
render the mapping of the district a work of considerable time. When com- 
pleted, a map will exist in which the approximate number of boulders and 
the character of the rocks of which they are formed will be shown, as well 
as the effect of the configuration of the country on their distribution. 
It is necessary to record the general position of the boulders in order to 
understand their geological meaning. 
In the Midland district, around Birmingham as a centre, the general po- 
sition of the boulders may be described in the following way :—The softness 
of the Bunter Sandstone of the district has prevented the preservation of gla- 
cial strie to any extent; but in one part (California near Harborne) they 
have been observed upon the native rock. The striated rock is covered by a 
thick clay containing boulders in the sense in which they occur in the oldest 
Boulder-clay of Scotland, many being striated. 
Upon this old Boulder-clay, covering a glaciated surface, occurs gravel fol- 
lowed by a thick clay with many boulders scattered through it, striated spe- 
timens being less common and less clearly marked. 
This is succeeded by sands and gravels, in which boulders of any size are 
far less frequent and evidently worn. Over the surface of the ground many 
boulders are spread, any sand and gravel which may at any time have sur- 
rounded them having been washed away. These boulders have possibly been 
dropped by floating ice over the Midland glacial sea, These facts have been 
