SUMMER SESSION. 



The following Excursions were made during the Summer 

 Session : — 



On May 25th, to 



SCRABO HILL AND MOVILLA. 



The first excursion of the season was made on the 25th inst., 

 to Scrabo Hill, near Newtownards, when a party on outdoor 

 science bent left the Ulster Hall in a four-horse brake, and, 

 quickly leaving the smoky city behind them, were soon follow- 

 ing the fresh green roads of the County Down. Passing the 

 tumulus that gives name to Dundonald, they left the main 

 road to Newtownards, and proceeded by the older and more 

 hilly one that leads to the back of Scrabo Hill. Leaving this 

 again by a sharp turn to the right, they passed the once well- 

 known " Cargo's quarry," now a deserted heap of grass-grown 

 debris, and about a mile further on reached the Glebe quarry, from 

 whence the stone used in Robinson & Cleaver's new building 

 was taken. Nearly all the quarrying about Scrabo Hill is done 

 under difficulties. The chief obstacle here consists of the bank 

 of stiff boulder clay, over forty feet thick, that covers the sand- 

 stone, a mass of unproductive material to be removed before 

 the stone can be got at. To the geologists of the party, how- 



