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sent position. The whinstone and diorite may have come from the west 

 and the sandstone from the north-west ; prolaabl}^ about forty miles dis- 

 tant. Height, about 150 ft. above sea-level. 



Group of boulders, 0° 25' 15" W. longitude; 54° 16' 30" K 

 latitude. Falsgrave, near Scarborough, where Stepney Road turns 

 sharply to the right at Falsgrave. One 3 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 8 in. 

 basalt ; one 3 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 6 in. X 1 ft. 6 in. red granite. Two of 

 nearly the same size of lias, and numerous others down to the smallest 

 sizes. About 130 tons have been carted away for road metal. Generally 

 rounded, but a few are subangular. All have been moved. Striations in 

 larger boulders in all directions. They are from all directions and differ- 

 ent distances, and represent different formations, but many are igneous 

 or metamorphic. Say 27 per cent, various ; 12 per cent, some twenty 

 kinds of granite and syenites of different colours ; 4 per cent, gneiss ; 

 12 per cent, basalts, various ; 8 per cent, quartzites ; 2 per cent, green- 

 stones ; 4 per cent, volcanic ashes ; 12 per cent, mountain limestone ; 



1 per cent, millstone grit; 6 per cent, lias; 5 per cent, oolite; 5 per 

 cent, pisolite ; 1 per cent, chert ; 1 per cent, chalk flint. Height^ 

 200 ft. above the sea and covering an area of 150 yards X 20 yards. 

 They are embedded in glacial drift, evidently slightly pervious. Some- 

 water must have percolated through the clay acting chemically on some 

 of those most easily thus acted upon. In some cases the iron has been 

 turned brown, but there has not been a free passage of water through,^ 

 In levelling the road in question in no case have they gone more than 

 6 ft. deep ; thus all were near the surface. 



Boulder of Shap granite ; measuring 2 ft. 11 in. long, 2 ft. 6 in. broad', 



2 ft. 1 in. thick. In the parish of Ganton, near Scarborough, on th-e 

 estate of Sir C. Legard, Ganton Hall, now forming the coi'ner-stone 

 on the premises belonging to the Greyhound Inn. Is a large Shap 

 boulder. It is from subangular to rounded and is oblong in shape. 

 There are no indications of any striae or grooving. It has been a sort of 

 trysting stone for generations. An old man remembers when he first 

 came to the village sixty-two years ago ; this stone was then at the junc- 

 tion or angle of the road, and from this position anyone could be seen 

 approaching the village by the highway. It was removed across the- 

 road to its present position in 1853. It formerly stood at the north 

 corner of the village lane joining the highway. Height, about 60 ft. above 

 the sea. The formation on which the boulder rests is composed of beds- 

 of sand to a great depth ; there is occasionally a band of rough angular 

 flint intermixed, but generally speaking the whole district about here is- 

 a huge sand-bed. 



At the west end of the same house are two boulders measuring — 



2 ft. 6 in. X 1 ft. 4 in. X 1 ft. 3 in. ; Whinstone. 



1 ft. 3 in. X 1 ft. 2 in. X 1 ft. in. ; Oolitic sandstone. 



The one composed of whinstone is angular, the Oolitic sandstone subangu- 

 lar. Both have been moved to their present position. The sandstone 

 may have come across the valley about six miles north. Height above 

 the sea, about 60 ft. 



Boulder of grey granite ; length, 3 ft. 8 in., 1 ft. 8 in. broad, 

 1 ft. 6 in. thick, occurs in the parish of Lund, at the north end of the 

 village of Lund, near Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, and about 150 

 yards to the north of Lund Church. Subangular. There is no doubt but 



