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the Ordovieian rocks of the shore, ahout six feet above ordinary high- 

 water mark. It is covered "with one foot of reddish clay, evidently 

 "washed down from the slopes above. The shells are tightly "wedged 

 together, and, though all stni li"ring in the neighbourhood, they are 

 of interest as having a much less littoral character than is usual in 

 the beds "we are considering — 



Anomia epMppium. f. 



T. magtis. v. r. 



Ostrea edidis. c. 



Littorina oltusata. c. 



Pecten rarius. r. 



L. litorea. c. 



P. opercularis. f. 



Rissoa memhranacea. v. r. 



P. pusio. f . 



Mydrolia uhce. v. r. 



P. maxiiiucs. f. 



Turritella terehra. c. 



Venus exoleta. v. c. 



Cerithium reticulatum. r. 



V. lincta. r. 



Aporrhais pes-pelecani. f . 



V. fasciata. f . 



Nassa reticulata, r. 



Cardium echinatum. c. 



Fmus antiquus. f. 



Cyprina islandica. r. 



F. gracilis, v. r. 



Lutraria elliptica. i. 



Pleurotoma rufa. v. r. 



Solen ensis. r. 



CyprcBa europecea. v. r. 



Patella vulyata. c. 



Serpula vermtcularis. i. 



2)-ochus cinerareus. c. 



Balanus sp. f. 



T. umhilicatus. i. 





ErNTTEGAE, B[oL"rWOOD. 



The Kinnegar is a sickle-shaped bank of gravel, runniag for half- 

 a-mile from the slight promontory on the shore belo-w the to"wn of 

 Holy"wood, in a direction parallel to the coast. The gravels rest on 

 the thick deposit of estuarine clay that fills the upper portion of 

 Belfast Lough, and they have been long noted as yielding flint 

 implements. At the extreme point the bank bends sharply back- 

 wards, so as to form a little hook. In the construction of a rifle 

 range in 1887 this hook was cut through, and was found to consist of 

 sand and shells, lying on the estuarine clay, and running in under 

 the gravels, which rested on it in tolerably even horizontal beds 

 (PI. I., fig. 1). The following shells were noted : — 



Anomia epMppium. f. V. gallina. v. r. 



Ostrea edulis. v. c. Tapes viryineus. f . 



Mytilus edulis. v. c. T. pidlastra. r. 



Cardium edide. v. c. T. decussatus. f. 



Venus exoleta. v. r. T. aureus, r. 



