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been ranked by Mr. Otley, the guide-book writer, as the first in the 
Lake-district. The great pile of rock called The Pillar presents a 
shape which can only be explained by denudation, and that chiefly 
a denudation by fragmentary displacement, which is the peculiar 
province of the sea. That this valley has been a creek, is evident 
from the number of undermined and denuded cliffs it contains, and 
especially from the terrace and accompanying line of cliff on the side 
of Revelin Pike. The geological tourist who, during the present 
summer, may wish to climb to the top of the Pillar Rock, will per- 
haps pardon me for digressing from the main subject, in conclusion, 
by giving a history of the very difficult and dangerous ascents which 
have already been achieved. This, after several months’ inquiry, I 
was fortunate to procure from Mr. Whitehead, Infirmary Surgeon, 
Whitehaven. ; 
On September 24, 1850, Mr. Whitehead ascended, and found two 
slips of paper, in a ginger-beer bottle, with the following inscrip- 
tions :—‘ Lieut. Wilson, R.N., Troutbeck, ascended the Pillar, May 6, 
1848, and left this bottle as a memento of the same.—Charles A. 
C. Baumgartner. August 24, 1850. Cambridge.’ 
Mr. Whitehead afterwards ascended on May 24, 1853. The ginger- 
beer bottle left by Lieut. Wilson was still there, but the papers were 
gone, and in their place a nest of black beetles. These were dis- 
lodged, and in their place a piece of paper was put in the bottle with 
‘God save the Queen’ written on it. 
Charles William Hartley, a young man from Bradford, Yorkshire, — 
ascended, Friday, May 24, and Monday, May 27, 1861. 
Mr. Whitehead, a third time, ascended, Aug. 27, 1861, and found 
the paper left by Mr. Hartley. 
So far on the undoubted authority of Mr. Whitehead. I have 
been informed that the Rev. Mr. Webster, late Curate of Keswick, 
has since ascended. 
IV. Microzoa or tHe VALLEY-DEPpPosITs OF THE Nar, 
Norroik. 
In the GroLocicat Macazine, No. VIL, Mr. C. B. Rost described 
the Brick-earth of the Nar Valley. To the list of Fossils which he 
gave at pp. 11 and 12, we can now add some minute but interesting 
forms, namely, four Bivalve Entomostraca and three Foraminifera. 
The former (all new species), determined by Mr. G. S. Brady, of Sun- 
derland, are— 
Cythere arborescens, Brady. Normania carinata, Brady. 
Cytheridea punctillata, Brady. Cythere aspera, Brady. 
In their general relationships, they are such as are found along 
the coast at the present day. 
The Foraminifera have been determined by Mr. H. B. Brady, 
F.L.S., F.G.S., of Newcastle, whose note is as follows :—‘ Brick- 
porphyry, but would caution geologists against being deceived by the look of a frac- 
tured surface—the real structure of rocks of this class beg best observed where 
the process of decomposition is going on. 
