1905-1906." 325 



famous paper on the Glaciation of Ireland, 5 dealing with that 

 neighbourhood: — "About 3^ miles from Ballymoney, on the 

 new road to Coleraine, at Seccaun Quarry, smoothings and 

 striations, N.W. by W., were found by me on basalt. It was 

 impossible to say in which direction the grinding agent moved 

 along the lines. . . . Near Cullybackey at the distance of 

 about Yx of a mile on the road to Ballyconnelly Cross-roads, 

 striations may be seen at a basalt quarry, N.N.W. Also on the 

 same rock at the very cross-roads, 1^2 mile S.W. of Cullybacky 

 — a good example. These are parallel to the others, but it 

 must be confessed they rather look as if the grinding move- 

 ment were towards the N.N.W. This, however, I suppose, 

 must be impossible." Writing to Mr. Close some three years 

 ago, I mentioned our discovering rhyolites at Ballymena and 

 Killagan, to which he replied : — "I am interested and pleased to 

 know what you tell me of the northward movement of frag- 

 ments of Templepatrick rhyolite, which confirms my reading of 

 those striations to which you refer." This is the second time 

 that our glacial researches have proved the remarkable acute- 

 ness of Mr. Close's reading of glacial striae. 6 



Passing Ballymena, IV., we reach at Kilwaughter, V., and 

 Gleno, VI., our only two* localities where drift rests directly 

 upon chalk, the former at an altitude of 500 feet, yielding only 

 3 Ailsa and 2 Bauxite erratics amongst a crowd of dolerite, 

 basalt, and cretaceous fragments. Gleno at 300 feet being a 

 totally different deposit, crowded at its base with Liassic frag- 

 ments, its upper portion stratified, with unusually angular 

 stones. Probably the basalt along this easterly coast has been 

 strapped off the chalk by the impact of ice, as well as over 

 Islandmagee, where magnificently glaciated surfaces of lime- 

 stone are sometimes exposed in the quarry opposite Maghera- 

 morne ferry, and our members are familiar with the ice-ground 



5. Notes on the General Glaciation of Ireland. By the Rev. Maxwell 



Close. Journ. Eoy. Geol. Soc. Irel., Vol. I., Part 3, p. 215. 



6. Note on " Glacial Geology of Kerry/' by Miss Sydney M. Thompson. 



The Irish Naturalist, Vol. VIII., No. 3, p. 61, 1899. 



