TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 75 
hills. The road on which it was lying was greatly cut up, and this relic of anti- 
quity was lying among the débris.” 
During the year 1869, when workmen were removing gravel for ballast from the 
Curran at Larne, the upper part of the thigh-bone of a mammoth was found along 
with some fragments of a whale about 20 feet below the surface of the Curran, 
which is itself there about that height above high water. 
(3) At Balbriggan, where the sea undermines and breaks away the land on the 
Skerries side, the author found the following species disclosed between 10 and 40 
feet above the sea-level :— 
Nucula, sp. Corbula gibba. 
Leda abyssicola. Saxicava Norvegica. 
pernula. rugosa, 
arctica. Dentalium entalis. 
Pectunculus glycymeris. Patella vulgata. 
Cardium echinatum. Littorina rudis. 
Cyprina Islandica. Turritella terebra. 
Astarte sulcata. Buccinum undatum. 
borealis. Nassa incrassata. 
Tsocardia cor. Pleurotoma turricula. 
Tellina balthica. Balanus sulcatus. 
calearia. 
Solen siliqua. 
(4) The following species were observed by him at Howth in the cutting for a 
new road on the hill above the town, about 100 feet above the sea :— 
Ostrea edulis. Mya truncata. 
Pecten opercularis. Pholas crispata. 
Leda pernula. Patella vulgata. 
Cardium echinatum. ‘i, Littorina litorea. 
edule. Turritella terebra. 
Cyprina Islandica. Buccinum undatum. 
Astarte sulcata. Fusus antiquus. 
borealis. Islandicus. 
depressa. Pleurotoma turricula. 
Mactra solida, var. elliptica. Balanus sulcatus. 
Tellina balthica. Annelid borings. 
(5) The following were obtained by him at Ballybrack, near Killiney, imbedded 
at heights between 10 and 20 feet above high water :— 
Ostrea edulis. Mya arenaria. 
Cardium edule. Trochus cinerarius. 
Astarte borealis. Turritella terebra. 
compressa. Fusus antiquus. 
Venus verrucosa, Cyprza Europea. 
exoleta. Balanus sulcatus. 
Tellina balthica. 
(6) From the railway-cutting through the Curran, Larne, the author obtained 
the following at heights varying from 10 to 20 feet above high water :— 
Anomia ephippium. Trochus cinerarius. 
Ostrea edulis. —— zizyphinus. 
Pecten varius. Littorina obtusata. 
Cardium edule. rudis. 
Kellia suborbicularis. litorea. 
Lucina borealis. Turritella terebra. 
Tapes pullastra. Cerithium reticulatum. 
Tellina tenuis. Purpura lapillus. 
Corbula gibba. Buccinum undatum. 
Saxicava rugosa. Nassa reticulata. 
| Heleyon pellucidum. pygmea. 
Patella vulgata. Cliona. borings. 
Trochus magus. 
6* 
