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well-laden cars started for Ballintoy via Carrick-a-Rede, 

 Descending to the swinging bridge at the latter place, an 

 exposed section of Trap was examined, and in the face of the 

 cutting several fragments of Chalk and Lias were found im- 

 bedded, the latter containing obscure fragments of shells ; and 

 some of the members present reported that they had on a 

 former occasion obtained belemnites from the same place. As 

 the Trap overlies the Chalk in this locality, the presence of 

 these fragments can only be accounted for, by supposing that 

 they were carried up by the Trap when it was first deposited 

 in a molten state. The majority of the party crossed the 

 celebrated swing-bridge, and visited the salmon fishery on the 

 island. Re-crossing the bridge, they descended to the beach, 

 end walked below the cliffs towards Ballintoy Harbour, and 

 their visit to this wild shore was more than repaid by the 

 many objects of interest that attracted their attention. Close to 

 the path by which they descended, a perfectly circular hole, 

 four feet in diameter, was found in the chalk rock, forming 

 the floor of the beach, and at the bottom was a rounded 

 boulder of trap rock, which explained that the hole was 

 drilled out by the force of the waves acting upon the boulder 

 and giving it a rotary motion, and thus causing it to sink 

 deeper and deeper into the softer chalk rock. Along the shore 

 several caves occur, having the ceilings decorated with 

 splendid tufts of the sea spleenwort (Asplenium marimcm), of 

 which several good specimens were secured. It was intended 

 to visit the bone cave at Carrick-a-Rede, and Mr. W. Heidman 

 kindly provided a boat for the purpose, but the sea was so 

 rough the boatmen could not effect a landing, and the project 

 was abandoned. Ascending to the cliff near the old Fort or 

 Dun below the Town of Ballintoy, a field was entered in 

 which a large number of well-formed flint flakes were found, 

 one of the members reported that in this field he found on a 

 former occasion several specimens of rude flint celts, and those 

 peculiar forms of flint known as scrapers or thumb-flints. 



