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on to the same horizon along the beach with the white chalk 

 and Greensand, full of fossils, whilst the hard trap rocks which 

 form the escarpment on the east side of the bay are finely ice- 

 rounded and striated. The trend of the bank lies nearly north 

 and south, with its face to the west, and the ice movement 

 which has ground them would appear to. have come from the 

 northward ; but if so, from where, and in what manner ? Did 

 the ice-cap, which some eminent geologists assert once cover- 

 ed the whole of Scotland, rode over the Hebrides, and pushed 

 southward the ice from Westmoreland mountains, reach also 

 across the Channel to Islandmagee ? or was the glaciation we 

 see here, and also that on the rocks about Bangor, done by 

 floating ice, driven before an Arctic current ? The rocking- 

 stone, itself an ice-dropped boulder, which weighed about six 

 tons, was soon reached, and rocked ; the headlands, with their 

 picturesque stacks and pinnacles, were clambered round or over ; 

 the remaining fragment of the old castle at Portmuck was visit- 

 ed and sketched ; and, after watching an interesting haul offish 

 in the little bay, the party struck across the island, past well- 

 tilled fields and comfortable farm-houses, for Niell Bay, from 

 whence a pleasant sail, before a fair wind, brought them to 

 Magheramorne, having, whilst witnessing torrents of rain pass 

 to right and left, succeeded by the usual club's luck, in getting 

 back as dry as when they started. 



On loth September, to 



NEWTOWNARDS AND CONLIG. 



Alighting from the train at Newtownards shortly after eleven 

 o'clock, the party at once set out on foot, deciding to visit the 

 remains of Movilla Abbey on the way. A short time was 

 pleasantly spent examining the old tomb stones, but the great 

 attraction here is the series of monumental crosses. Until 

 quite recently some of these stood in different parts of the 



