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residence, Kilcorig House, where he entertained them most 

 hospitably, and prepared them for the walk back to Lisbum. 

 The evening was beautifully fine, and from the high level of 

 the road a most extensive and richly-cultivated landscape 

 presented itself. The belt of country bordering the Ulster 

 Railway formed the foreground, and several towns — Lurgan, 

 Moira, Hillsborough, and Dromore — were distinctly visible ; 

 and even the fields on the slope of Slieve Croob, beyond 

 Ballynahinch, could be clearly traced, and the whole range of 

 the Mourne Mountains well marked in the distant horizon, 

 while Carlingford Mountain blended with the more distant 

 hills of Monaghan and Louth. 



The following papers were read before the Society during 

 the 



WINTER SESSION. 



The meetings were unusually well attended, and great inte- 

 rest was taken in the papers introduced, and was frequently 

 manifested by the animated discussion that followed the read- 

 ing of the respective papers. 



The Session was opened on Thursday Evening, the 22nd 

 November, with a paper on " The Recent Elevation of the 

 Land in the Vicinity of Belfast," by Robert Young, C.E. 



Belfast is peculiarly favoured in many ways, and, among 

 others, it is a highly interesting field for the geological 

 observer. Within a very few miles of the town a very exten- 

 sive series of rock formations are exposed to view, at many 

 places easy of access, and many of the beds abounding in fossil 

 remains. Mr. Young referred to those, and stated that the 

 more recent and superficial phenomena which, under the 

 various titles of alluvium, diluvium, drift, boulder, clay, &c, 

 as used by various authors, are now occupying a very large 

 share of the attention of geologists, both at home and abroad, 

 are also well displayed in this neighbourhood, as well as the 



