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the train at 3.35 to Belfast, where the entire party found them- 

 selves, " sound in life and limb," at 6.45, well pleased and thankful, 

 and, we have little doubt, invigorated for their town avocations, 

 by this really-delightful, well-planned, and safely-executed excursion. 

 " Laus Deo /" and thanks to the excellent heads and hands of the 

 Committee and their invaluable Hon. Sec., who carried the whole 

 to so happy a termination. Seven new members were elected at 

 the meeting, and a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Mack for 

 kindly waiting on the Club to include them in a view of the 

 Causeway. 



On the 11th July, to 



THE GOBBINS. 



A goodly number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at the 

 Northern Counties Eailway Terminus, and proceeded at 9.30 a.m. 

 to Ballycarry, at the head of Larne Lough. On leaving the train 

 at Ballycarry, the party proceeded on foot, reaching the shore a 

 little to the north of Blackhead. Here a number of detached 

 boulders, of immense size, that lay along the beach, at once arrested 

 attention, and gave rise to much discussion as to how they came 

 there. Those who study " superficial geology" find ample proof 

 that ice, during a remote glacial period, was mainly instrumental 

 in fashioning our hills and valleys ; and the agency of ice in the 

 transport of these detached rocks is in the highest degree probable. 

 An interesting example of ice-work may be observed in a quarry 

 hard by. Here the Chalk is overlaid by a thick deposit of 

 " Boulder Clay." This contains the usual scratched pebbles of the 

 " Drift," and, when removed, the rock surface is seen to be polished 

 and scored, adding another good instance of " glaciation" to those 

 already noticed in our neighbourhood. 



No locality more instructive to the geologist than the shore 

 between Blackhead and the Gobbins could have been visited. Here 

 are seen sedimentary rocks of various lithological characters — lime- 

 stones, clays, and sandstones ; and belonging to several geological 



