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bled enjoyed one of the best meetings for the year. Although 

 the effects of the past week's storm were unmistakably 

 indicated by the saturated ground, swollen rivers, and scattered 

 corn, and even several drenching showers fell during the day, 

 yet there was nothing in the weather to cause more incon- 

 venience than was amply compensated for by the clear sunshine 

 that broke out between the showers, and lightened up the 

 landscape as far as the eye could reach. Nowhere was the 

 effect of the previous rain more evident than in the well-named 

 " Bog Meadows,'' near Belfast, which appeared from the rail- 

 way one sheet of water, in which the tree-tops served to mark 

 the hedge-rows beneath, and the haycocks, half submerged, 

 seemed floating over the fields where the crop was grown. 

 Leaving the train at Lisburn the party had a good open country 

 walk of about three miles to the limestone quarries, the 

 property of Bennet Megarry, Esq., of Kilcorig House. At 

 Kilcorig the limestone or chalk immediately overlies the New 

 Bed Sandstone series, without the Greensand and Lias which 

 usually occur between these formations. The latter two occur 

 between the chalk and the Keuper marls of the Bed Sandstone 

 group at Larne, Whitehead, and Belfast ; and at Colin Glen 

 they make up a thickness of about ninety feet ; and, as they 

 increase in thickness from east to west, it is not likely that 

 their absence so near Colin Glen as Kilcorig should be owing 

 to any thinning out of the beds. The probability is, that at 

 Kilcorig the whole suit of rocks occurring there are portions c f 

 a landslip which became detached from the White Mountains, 

 and, sliding over the Lias clays and shales, rested permanently 

 on the Keuper marls below, as we now find them. Over the 

 marls the several beds of chalk make up a total thickness of about 

 thirty-five feet, the upper surface of which exhibits evidence of 

 long exposure to atmospheric denudation, and the deep hollows 

 worn on the surface are filled with gravel and blocks of flint, 

 which, with the accompanying clay, became subsequently burnt, 

 or indurated by the intense heat of the trap rock, when in a 

 melted state it overflowed the district. The trap in the section 

 exposed attains a thickness of about fifteen feet, and is semi- 

 columnar, somewhat like the trap of Whitehead. Between this 



