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to discover that the granites have taken a circuitous sweep round 

 two small hills : Housethwaite Hill and Haggs Hill, their base being 

 on the same level with the Goldmire valley ; and that, regaining the 

 same valley, their course is ruled by it south-westward to the shore. 

 Thus they have nowhere made an eastern divergence from my former 

 line exceeding half a mile. 



At Ireleth, the next village north of Greenscow, granite is not 

 uncommon in the roads, but I am assured by the farmers that it is 

 thrown from carts conveying shore sand, which is largely used 

 throughout the country for horticultural, building, and other pur- 

 poses. This at once accounts for the presence and destroys the value 

 of any isolated SMr/ace-pebble wherever it may be found. 



In conclusion, while recognizing these evidences of the submer- 

 gence of West Furness, it by no means follows that the eastern 

 ground has been depressed to the same extent. It must be borne in 

 mind that at the period when icebergs floated past on their way 

 south, Furness was not a peninsula ; her southern and eastern escarp- 

 ments, whether of erratic or still older deposits, attest the fact. In 

 short, that which is seen in miniature at Lodge Green, in the 

 Hawcoat cliffs, is simply repeated on a larger scale : — the land 

 drainage has cut wide breaches, which have admitted the sea. 



Again, at Ulverston, the sea's influx up the drainage courses can 

 be no evidence of general depression ; as while sea-arranged gravels, 

 with some few marine shells, reach nearly 100 feet elevation, yet 

 half a mile out of these courses it seems to be true untouched 

 moraine matter down to between 30 and 25 feet, as shown by some 

 late deep cuttings. 



On the other hand, shore-lines are sometimes artificial. In 

 the memory of old inhabitants, small traders rode up our serpen- 

 tinous Carter Pool fully half a mile within the Ordnance high-water 

 mark. Small pieces of local evidence like this, ought surely to be 

 taken into consideration in any attempt to correlate these deposits. 



Cavendish Street, Ulverston, 

 1st March, 1870. 



3sroTiOES OIF DycEnv^oiias. 



Eecoeds of the Geological Survey of India. 

 Vol. III. Part 1. February, 1870. 



This Part of the Eecords contains the Annual Report of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of India, and of the Museum of Geology, Calcutta, for 

 the year 1869. By Dr. Oldham, F.E.S., Director. 



Besides the absence from India of Mr. W. T. Blanford, who for 

 ten months of this period was busily engaged in the preparation of 

 his Keport on the Geology and Natural History of Abyssinia, the 

 temporary losses of two officers away on furlough, of one from ill- 

 ness (svmstroke), the Survey further suffered, during the year, the 

 loss by death, in April, of Mr. Charles Oldham, Deputy Superinten- 



