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VII.— 0/^ the Vestiges of Extinct Glaciers in the Highlands 



of Great Britain and Ireland. 



By Edward Hull^ F.G.S. of the Geological Survey 



of Gi^eat Britain. 



Eead February 7th, i860. 



It is with considerable diffidence that I venture to read 

 the following paper before the Society, as it is one in 

 which there is little that is new, and certainly nothing of 

 pressing or immediate interest. But having during the 

 last summer made a visit to the southern slopes of the 

 Westmoreland mountains, with the object of tracing in 

 some detail the impressions which it was generally known 

 the ancient glaciers had left behind, I would fain hope 

 that the communication of the results might not be unin- 

 teresting. 



Besides entering upon this hitherto almost untrodden 

 ground, I shall venture to present a short outline of simi- 

 lar glacial traces in the other highland regions of the 

 British Islands ; and here I would remark that there is a 

 wide field for observation still open, and that what Pro- 

 fessor Ramsay has done for North Wales, we want carried 

 out in the mountains of Kerry and over the greater extent 

 of the Scottish Highlands. From my own observations in 

 the Lake district, I feel confident that, in order to arrive at 

 an adequate idea of the extent and nature of the former 

 glacial geography of the British Isles, it will be necessary 



