formations, from the lower Lias to upper Tertiary. Some of the 

 beds are richly stored with the fossil remains of organisms, long 

 since extinct, and will continue to yield to inquirers, yet unborn, 

 those evidences that have enabled a generation of geologists not yet 

 passed away, to build up their science on an orderly and unassailable 

 basis. The stratified rocks are overlaid by that great capping of 

 basalt that forms such a marked feature in the geology of our 

 country, and which, descending perpendicularly on the East side of 

 Islandmagee to below the sea level, gives us the Gobbin Cliffs. 



Another feature noticed on the shore south of the Gobbins was 

 the number and extent of the landslips, or rather rock slips, that 

 have taken place. All along the Antrim coast, wherever the Lias 

 clays crop out at the base of the cliffs, the superimposed rocks slip 

 down, and to this we owe much of our rugged and uneven scenery. 

 Here, in Islandmagee, were some slips on an extensive scale, and 

 one in particular, of a striking nature. A mass of rock, consisting 

 of limestone and trap, that must weigh some thousands of tons, 

 has not only slipped down, but been overturned. The rock mass 

 has turned over bodily — chalk and trap together — so that the layer 

 of flints between the chalk and the basalt, which, in the normal 

 state, is horizontal, is, in this case, vertical. 



This phenomenon deserves to receive attention, and it is to be 

 hoped that some member will bring the subject before the Club 

 at one of the winter meetings. The scenery of the Gobbins, while 

 delighting the lovers of the picturesque, is equally striking when 

 viewed by the geologist. The stupendous basaltic cliffs testify to 

 the vastness of the volcanic forces in action at that era when the 

 Trap, of Antrim, was poured forth as molten lava. It is not easy, 

 when studying such a region, to accept the doctrine of that modern 

 school of geologists who maintain that the forces now at work are the 

 types, not only in kind, but also in degree, of those geological forces 

 that from the first have been concerned in moulding the earth to 

 its present form. A number of good fossils were obtained by those 

 who came provided with hammer and chisel. In the Greensand 

 several specimens were got of Microhacia coronula — a coral rarely 

 met with ; also, Pecten orbicularis, Exogyra levigata, Vermi- 

 cularia concava, V. quin^uecarinaia, and several species of Rhyn- 



