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business meeting of the day was held. A new member was 

 elected, and some business letters were read. A vote of thanks 

 was, on the motion of Mr. Mann Harbison, proposed to Canon 

 Grainger for his courtesy and attention throughout the day, 

 and for the very generous hospitality which they had received. 

 The motion, having been put by the chairman (the Rev. J. H. 

 Smythe), was carried by acclamation. The party shortly 

 afterwards remounted the cars, and were soon on their way 

 back to town, after a most enjoyable day. 



On 3rd June, to 



COLLIN GLEN. 



The weather was very near perfection, and the numerous 

 cavalcade which started from the Museum gave ample proof 

 of the popularity of the short excursions arranged to places in 

 the immediate vicinity of the town. Leaving the cars at the 

 village of Hannahstown, the party crossed the fields so as to 

 strike the Collin River at the waterfalls. The flow of water 

 caused by the recent thunderstorms set off these to great 

 advantage. It is to the broad sheets of basalt which spread out 

 as uplands over most of Antrim, and form the dark capping 

 above the white chalk upon the summits of our hills, that are 

 due most of our local waterfalls. The alternation of harder 

 and softer beds of this volcanic rock, and the occasional inter- 

 section of still harder dykes of the same material, give, rise to 

 numerous ledges, each marked by its own cascade. Of the 

 Collin falls it is doubtful which to admire most, the upper and 

 loftier fall, where, divided by a rock, the two portions of the 

 stream fall side by side, one larger than the other — like a 

 waterfall and its echo ; or the lower, where two streams, rising 

 on the slopes of two separate mountains, and flowing down 

 opposite glens, meet at last upon the same narrow ledge of 

 rock, and, crossing as they fall, unite their waters in the deep 



