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shore side. In its side is a magnificent trap dyke, intersecting, 

 or, more correctly, bisecting a gully, and which stands up to a 

 perpendicular height in some places of near 50ft., as clean and 

 regular as a built wall. The softer amygdaloid trap on each 

 side has been weathered and washed away, and the harder 

 basalt of the dyke left standing out by itself. There is another 

 fine specimen in an adjacent gully. From this point the noble 

 cliff escarpment known as the Sallagh Braes stretches in a 

 magnificent semicircle. In the cliff gullies, and in the boggy 

 moorland behind, several mountain plants were found, such as 

 the filmy fern, Hymenophyllum unilaterale^ and the two 

 insectivorous plants, Drosera rotundifolia and Pinguicula vul- 

 garis. On some of the leaves half-digested tiny flies or midges 

 were found, but the meals of the plants in this neighbourhood 

 or season do not seem to have been so luxurious as the writer 

 has seen on Cave Hill in a former year, when nearly fifty flies, 

 in various stages of dissolution, were counted on a single plant 

 of pinguicula. Regaining the cars, after a run to a fine stand- 

 ing stone, the best speed which the steepness of the mountain 

 roads would permit was made for Larne, and the party were 

 soon enjoying a comfortable tea in Mr. M'Neill's extensive 

 establishment. Almost the whole of the route traversed dur- 

 ing this excursion lies quite beyond the ordinary track of 

 tourists or holiday excursions, and the value of the Field Club 

 is shown by the facilities it affords for searching out and 

 arranging for visits to such out-of the-way, but interesting, 

 localities as that selected for the present excursion. 



On 13th September, to 



KILLYMOON AND COOKSTOWN. 



The sixth and last excursion of the season was held on 

 Saturday, 13th September, to Killymoon and Cookstown. 

 The members assembling at the Great Northern in time for the 

 7 a.m. train, found a special carriage obligingly placed at their 



