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Errati ic Boulders: in Lincolnshire.—I am glad to see aps Stather’s 
remarks i in the last number of ‘ The Mater list.’ No do oe it is chiefly near 
‘ports and miele rways’ that blocks of stone, brought th siseinh man’s aid to | 
‘the laces where they are met with, are most likely to be found; for it is 
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This ‘remark applies also to s nt, if not equally, to railways; for,no — 
doubt, wherever stations are ‘Built, eee! trucks, ages eath b blocks of Stofiae 
are Withereo bro bis a 
With regard to Mr Cooke’s remarks in the same number, thous I feel | 
it is not Bb paring for me to say it, yet, as the question is put, I readily repl 
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them is of no value whatever. Surely what we want, and what we should 
aim at, as searchers in the field of science, is = get - the truth and nothing 
more ; and, to this end, yesh criticisms ar oft ten useful. a 
I must ectine saying t pres pe preparing: a paper on the 
subject, which I hope to hive eal befaie sei +F. M. Burton, rise 
Salesiees ial 15th Jan. 1898. 
Linc olashire Boulders. think, with Mr. Burton and others, sha . 
much care should be used before we accept road and fa armyard boulders as — 
shire are in no sense 0 local origin, nor ar e they deri ved, as’ Mr. 
inks. from thei 
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rs in the Pes Ae: loa went deep enough to touch 
a boulder in A ite original bed in the subsoil, and no brick ite Pian few gravel ; 
pits existed anywhere in ort incolns hire. n more recent days when, in 
underdraining, a large erratic is struck, a slight divergence is invariably 
made in the drain, men objecting to the labour of (igging it out. Mt 
Where t did our boulders come from? Local sources have never. 
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partly to be used for the eit ange exposed corners, but chiefly as a base 
for the principal wooden uprights—the posts resting on the datiened surface 
of the stone, but never mortised into it. Many are also used as bou miate. 
stones in the open fields. __ ; es 
aig ses in cutting a drain or excavating fiiiausas about this 
village, our men come across secs base-stones, marking, perhaps, the ancient 
homestead of Saxon or Dan 
he v ree I ( cobble Nervio An in sa ei gol gcd village s 
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the on the € coast, but have 
eouecnse shore and the great gravel banks—the 
Is it n t likely also that the majority of the Louth boulders have been 
partly phim arried from distant places, and are not a altogether the product 
of the Hessle clay, flanking the anys Wolds. hee YHN CORDEAUX, Great — 
Cotes House, R. 5-0., — eget uary 1898. . 
