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excavations of the Belfast Field Club Committee, were remarkably- 

 fresh and well-preserved, much more so than those of the superior 

 beds. 



This completes my own notes on the north-eastern raised beaches, 

 but it may be allowed to me to briefly mention any records of fossils 

 that have not been already referred to, in order that a complete view 

 may be obtained of the raised beach fauna, so far as it is known. 



In Grainger's Paper in "Nat. Hist. Eeview," 1859, already 

 referred to, the following marine shells are recorded : — 



White Abbey, thirty feet elevation. — Ostrea edulis, Pecten maxi- 

 mus, Mytilus edulis, Cardium edule, Tapes aureus, Tellina balthica, 

 Trochus cinerareus, Littorina litorea, L. rudis, L. oltusata, Purpura 

 lapillus. 



Geeencastle, twenty feet elevation. — Cardium edule, Tellina lal- 

 thica, Littorina oltusata, L. litorea, L. rudis, Sydrohia ulvcs, Cerifhium 

 reticulatum. 



Banks op Theee-Mile "Watee, ten feet elevation. — Mytilus edulis. 

 Patella vulgata, Balanus sp. 



JoEDANSTOwi]", three feet elevation. — Anomia ephippium, Pecten 

 opercularis, Mytilus modiolus, M. edulis, Cardium edule, Venus exoleta, 

 V. gallina, Tapes decussatus, Mactra suhtruncata, Tellina halthica, Mya 

 truncata, Patella vulgata, Littorina oltusata, L, litorea, L. rudis, 

 Turritella terelra, Aporrhais pes-pelecani, Cerithium reticulatum, Pur- 

 pura lapillus, Nassa reticulata, N. incrassata, Buccinum undatum, Fusus 

 antiquus, Pleurotorna rufa, Serpula vermicularis, S. triquetra. 



Caeeickfeegus, forty feet elevation. — Anomia ephippium, Ostrea 

 edulis, Pecten opercularis, Mytilus modiolus, M. edulis, Cardium edule, 

 Mactra sultruncata, Trochus cinerareus, Littorina litorea, L. rudis, 

 Cerithium reticulatum, Buccinum undatum, Serpula triquetra. In 

 "Brit. Assoc. Eeport," 1874, Grainger supplies the additional infor- 

 mation, that these were collected in a raised beach beyond Carrick- 

 fergus. 



The lists from "one foot elevation" are not worth giving, in the 

 absence of any particulars regarding the conditions under which they 

 were found. In no case in this Paper, unfortunately, is any information 

 given relative to the deposits from which the shells were obtained; those 

 from "sixty to eighty feet elevation, Co. Down Eailway cuttings," 

 were certainly obtained from glacial beds.^ The remainder which I 

 I have quoted above were, no doubt, obtained from raised beaches ; but, 



1 See M'Adam, in Journ. Gaol. Soc. Dublin, vol. iv., part 2, No. 2 (1850). 



