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After dinner, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr. 

 Maughan, who had kindly conducted the party through the ruins 

 of Jervauls, and to Mr. Home, for his kind assistance and guid- 

 ance during their visit to Wensleydale. 



On the following day, those who were able to remain made 

 an excursion by Scarth Nick to Bolton Castle, and afterwards 

 visited Aysgarth and its waterfall, returning through West 

 Witton to Leyburn. The fine weather, and the buoyant moun- 

 tain air of this mountain valley, were much enjoyed by all. 



The FiPTH Field MEEiiiirG took place at Loftus and Staithes, 

 in Yorkshire, and was held on Monday, September 22nd. The 

 members left the Central Station, Newcastle, by the 7.35 a.m. 

 train, and travelled via Ferryhill, Middlesbrough, and arrived 

 at Loftus at 10.40, where they were joined by others, who had 

 left Newcastle on the previous Saturday, and had spent the 

 Sunday at Saltburn-by-the -Sea. After partaking of a slight re- 

 freshment, and a short stroll through Loftus, the party started 

 for the Coast line, and were most ably conducted by Dr. Yeitch, 

 of Middlesbrough, the Honorary Secretary of the Cleveland 

 Naturalists' Field Club, whose knowledge of the locality, as well 

 as of its geological features, was of the greatest value. The 

 weather was remarkably fine for the late season. On our route 

 to Hammersea, we noticed by the roadside, at an elevation of 

 400 feet, a fine boulder of Shap Granite, or "Wastedale Porphyry, 

 as it is more generally designated. In the central valley of the 

 Tees these boulders are rather abundant, but are more sparingly 

 distributed in the Cleveland district. Locally no erratic blocks 

 are of greater interest than those brought into our district from 

 Shap Fell. After being carried by some means across the Stain- 

 moor ridge, they have been -carried through most of the York- 

 shire valleys draining into that river into the valley of the Tees. 

 On reaching a lower part of the Tees, their course seems to have 

 been directed south, along the line of the Ouse Yalley, as far as 

 the Holderness of Yorkshire, and a few are said to be spread 

 over the Cleveland area. 



As time did not permit to follow the base line of the cliffs our 



