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Glaciers. 



tiny moraines, marking the last relics of the ice before 

 it disappeared from the country. 



The same kind of evidence of a period of greatest 

 glaciation, followed by partial submersion, re-elevation., 

 and the gradual retreat of the later glaciers, is plain in 

 almost every valley in Cumberland, and Mr. Ward con- 

 firms this old view of mine, as applied to Wales, in his 

 late account of ' The Glaciation of the Northern Part 



FIG. 91. 



Old glacier cirques in Arran, from Lagan Hills. 



of the Lake District,' in the 29th volume of the Journal 

 of the Geological Society. 



In Scotland also the land underwent partial sub- 

 mersion and re-elevation during the Glacial epoch, and 

 the gradual retreat of the later glaciers is witnessed in 

 many a valley in the Carrick and Lammermuir Hills, 

 in the moraines of the cirques of Arran, and through 

 the mainland of the Highland?, and in Skye in the 



