286 REPOET — 1891. 



Reported hy ]\Ir. J. W. Gray, F.O.S. 



Group. 



Levensliulme. — New railway cutting about 200 yards east of Slade 

 Lane. A large boulder of Coal-measure sandstone is to be seen having 

 a group of smaller stones packed in front of it, the whole resting on the 

 soft purple shales associated with the Ardwick limestone. The large 

 stone was separated from the underlying Coal-measures by a thin layer 

 of brownish boulder clay, and (immediately in contact with the boulder) 

 a film about 3 in. thick of worked-up shale, which was also massed in 

 front (i.e., to eastward) of it, and formed the nidus of the smallest 

 stones before mentioned. In this case the evidence was held to be con- 

 clusive as showing the direction of movement. The packed shale and 

 fragments of stone were on the easterly side of the large boulder, and the 

 largest subangular fragment, 2 ft. x 1 ft. 8 in. x 1 ft. 2 in., consisted of 

 Ardwick limestone of a kind which cropped out 50 yards to the west- 

 ward. The dimensions of the sandstone boulder are 5 ft. x 4 ft. 3 in. 

 X 2 ft. 4 in. Long axis about N. 50° W. magnetic. It is scratched upon 

 all visible faces. The principal scratches upon the upper surface are 

 from N". 50° "W., i.e., in the direction of the long axis. They clearly 

 originate at the north-westerly end, and finish at the south-easterly end. 



[A boulder of igneous rock, resembling rocks from the Lake District, 

 weighing 2^ tons, found in Coronation Street, Reddish, has been described 

 by Mr. Gray in the ' Annual Report of the Stockport Society of Natu- 

 ralists,* 1889. It has been removed for preservation to the Vernon 

 Park.] 



Reported hy Mr. Thomas Axon. 



In river Tame on Lancashire side, about 100 yds. below Arden Paper 

 Mills, near Woodley, Cheshire — 



8 ft. 3 in. X 7 ft. 8 in. x G ft. 6 in. ; siibangular ; has fallen out of some 

 glacial deposit ; no distinct striations ; volcanic rock, probably rhyo- 

 litic, and from the Borrowdale series of the Lake District ; about 10 

 yds. to northwards of boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire ; 

 isolated from any glacial deposit ; river silt. 



HaugJdon Green, about 200 yds. below the river Tame from Arden 

 Paper Mills,, near Woodley, Cheshire — 



6 ft. 6 in. X 7 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 2 in. (visible). A great mass lies beside the 

 stone which has been broken from it. This would make the length 9 ft. 

 6 in. instead of 6 ft. G in. ; rounded ; has fallen out of the river-bank ; 

 well scratched on the side which is now uppermost in direction of long 

 axis ; a rather coarse andesite, from Borrowdale series, L.D. ; 5 yds. 

 on Cheshire side of Lancashire and Cheshire boundary ; isolated ; on 

 bed of river Tame. 



5 ft. X 2 ft. 9 in. X 2 ft. 3 in. ; none of these is full measurement, as the 

 stone is partly under water ; rounded ; fallen out of river bank ; 

 probably andesite, Borrowdale series, L.D. ; 5 yds. on Cheshire side 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire boundary ; isolated ; bed of river Tame. 



In the bank of the river Tame, under Arden Paper Mills, near 

 Woodley, Cheshire — 



4 ft. 6 in. X 3 ft. 6 in. X 2 ft. G in. (visible) ; rounded ; has been moved ; 

 isolated ; river silt. 



