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sufficient to comment upon, except as having afforded rough 
millstones, perhaps, for ages, the name of the formation being 
derived from its use in the very district traversed by the Club. 
Metalliferous veins are almost exclusively confined to the lower 
divisions of the mountain limestone ; but sometimes veins of lead 
do occur in the middle series, and at Healyfield have been worked 
for many years in the millstone grit.” 
THE PRESIDENTS NOTES ON THE SECOND FIELD-MEETING. 
Our second excursion was a long and delightful one; the day, 
however, was intensely hot, whilst all nature was in full life and 
expansion under the burning sunshine. Fortunately there was 
a brisk air, and great part of the way was traversed under the 
canopy of the woods. The resting-place where we enjoyed the 
hospitable shelter of the tent, and partook of its refreshments, over- 
looks the course of the Derwent both downward, along in the di- 
rection we had come, and upward where its character is different, 
as it flows through an open moorland country. The point where 
we stood gave us the best possible idea of the geography of the 
river and great part of its basin. Just below us was a bold and 
richly-wooded elbow of the banks, forming a promontory on the 
northern side, and this point is called the Snape. We were told 
that this curious appellation was in allusion to the beak of a snipe. 
I fancied it might be a corruption of Snae-hope: but there was 
no “hope” or short valley there to countenance the supposition. 
We must compare this name with a place called The Snipe, 
on the angle of land at the junction of Tarset Burn and Hun- 
ter’s Burn, in the vale of North Tyne; and also with The 
Snipe, at the north-eastern point of Holy Island. 
The Anglo-Saxon original, if such ever existed, has been lost ; 
but in the Old Norse, the language of the Danes, who so long 
held sway in these parts, we find the word Snoppa, rostrum a 
beak. Hence it is not unlikely that both Snape, as applied to a 
jutting promontory, or point of land, and the name of the bird 
may have a common origin, and that both are from the old Norse, 
Snoppa, a beak, or from a collateral Anglo-Saxon expression, 
which has disappeared. 
