J. E. Marr and R. H. Adie — The Lakes of 8noivdon. 51 



Dimensions of the Horns [Antlers] found at Alport. 



ft. 

 Circumference at their insertion into the corona 



ff. Length of the lowest antler [brow-tine] 



b. Length of the second antler [bez-tine] 



c. Length of the third antler [trez-tine] ... 

 Length of horn antler [in the beam] ... 



Dimensions of Large Pair of ' Throstle-nest Horns ' 

 (ordinary Eed-Deer Antlers). 



Circumference at their insertion into the corona 



a. Length of the lowest antler [brow-tine] 



b. Length of the second antler [bez-tine] ... 



c. Length of the third antler [trez-tine] ... 

 Length of horn antler [in the .beam] ... 



Dimensions of the Horns of a Stag Seven Tears Old. 



ms. 

 2 



Hi 

 U 

 u 



ms. 

 7 

 



lU 

 7* 



Circumference at their insertion into the corona 



a. Length of the lowest antler [brow -tine] 



b. Length of the second antler [bez-tine]... 



c. Length of the third antler [trez-tine] ... 

 Length of horn antler [in the beam] ... 



ft. ins. 



oh 



9^ 



10 



10 



2 8f 



" Youlgreave, January 23rcl, 1785." 



P.S. — The following measurements have been taken since the 

 antlers have been repaired and mounted in the Gallery.^ 



II.— The Lakes of Snowdon. 



By J. E. Marr, M.A., F.E.S., and E. H. Adie, M.A., F.C.S., Lecturers of 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 



rj^HE waterways of "Wales owe their directions to a complex series 

 JL of events which it is not our province to discuss in this place, 

 but the minor features of Snowdonia are largely determined by 

 planes of weakness which were produced in the rocks of the region 

 during the occurrence of the marked earth-movements at the close 

 of Silurian and Carboniferous times. The Post-Silurian earth-move- 

 ments gave rise to planes of weakness running in a general north- 

 east and south-west direction, and in a direction at right angles 



1 See also "British Deer and their Horns," by J. G. Millais, p. 96, fig. 2, and 

 p. 105. (Eoy. 4to ; Sotheran & Co., 1897.) 



