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out of the carboniferous limestone, of which a patch still remains 

 at Castle Espie, the surplus waters of which lake escaped before 

 the present deep channel was in existence, by a river running 

 from the Quoile, near Downpatrick, past Saul and the west end of 

 Slieve-na-Griddle, and thence south-eastward to the sea near 

 Killough, along which route are found patches of ancient river 

 gravels and sands. This offers a good subject for some members 

 of the Club to work out. A few hurried minutes were agree- 

 ably spent in partaking of Mr. and Mrs. Whiteside's hospitality, 

 and a new member having been elected, a dash was made for 

 the station just in time to catch the last train for Belfast, 

 arrived at which the members parted, congratulating themselves 

 that Field Club days, like " Queen's weather," almost always 

 turn out fortunate. 



On 25th June, to 



SQUIRE'S HILL AND CARR'S GLEN. 



Notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the weather, 

 the moment a smart shower had passed over, a score of members 

 started from the Museum, and drove on cars up the Crumlin 

 Road to the horse-shoe bend, just below the quarries which line 

 the face of Squire's Hill. Entering one of these the party were 

 soon busy — some breaking up flints in search of the soft chalk 

 powder now so well known as containing foraminifera^ some 

 searching for larger fossils, and others taking note of several 

 fine basaltic dykes which here intersect the limestone, the heat 

 from which has had in many places the usual result of altering 

 the white chalk to a grey, semi-crystalline marble. The bed of 

 chalk is here of apparently greater thickness than in the Cave 

 Hill quarry, and cropping out where the slope of the hill is 

 gradual there is a much smaller quantity of the overlying trap 

 and basaltic rocks to be removed, and the quarrying appears to 

 be effected with comparatively little expense or difficulty, the 



