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Basford village, I saw a newly disinterred Eskdale boulder 4 x 24 x 2 
feet ; Stoke-on-Trent, where Eskdale granite may be found in the dine - 
pits; and thence to the neighbourhood of Stafford. In Ashflat clay- 
pits, south of Stafford, Eskdale predominates over Criffel granite. 
From Stafford the main boundary runs south to Bushbury; but 
granite pebbles have found their way further east, though none as 
far as Lichfield. About Bushbury there are many large felstone 
boulders; one, 33 xX3x3 feet, is much glaciated: there are like- 
wise several large Eskdale-granite boulders. 
4. Dispersion. over the Pee of Wirral, Delamere, and Peck- 
forton Hills, Cheshire Plain, 5c.—TYhe largest boulders in Wirral 
consist of Lake-district felstone* and felspathic breccia. Eskdale- 
granite boulders are not uncommon; and most of the small granite 
pebbles are Eskdale. South of Chester, about Farndon &c., most of 
the granite boulders are Eskdale. From the neighbourhood of 
Runcorn, south by Frodsham, Overton, Helsby, and on the slopes 
of the ridge called Delamere Forest, Lake-district-felstone and 
Eskdale-granite boulders are numerous and often very large. On 
the east side of Overton hiil there is a felstone 5x 4 x 14 foot, and 
an Hskdale-granite 4x3 x2 feet. In Frodsham, Helsby, and the 
neighbourhood I saw many Eskdales from 3 to 4 feet in length. 
Large Eskdale and felstone boulders may likewise be seen around 
Delamere church and Eddisbury hill. Mr. Strahan (of the Geolo- 
gical Survey) lately found a boulder of felspathic breccia near 
Hddisbury hill about 10 feet long, which I missed seeingt. On 
the Peckforton range of hills, between Lower Burwardsley and 
Peckforton Point, a number of Kskdale-granite and Lake-district- 
felstone boulders may be seen. On the west side of Buckley hill, 
one of the Peckforton range, the boulders reach nearly 700 feet 
above the sea. Further south, on Mr. Lee’s (formerly Mr. Gerrard’s) 
farm, there were, some years ago, many large boulders, chiefly Esk- 
dale-granite, but nearly all of them were lately sold for “rockery ” 
and removed down hill. In Fuller’s Moor village, at a much lower 
level, I counted seventeen boulders, most of them very large and 
consisting of Hskdale granite. They were not in their original 
position ; but their size must have prevented artificial transportation 
from any considerable distance, especially in a district where native 
boulders are far from being scarce. 
5. Helstone Boulders of Ashley Heath §c.—A zone running §.8.E. 
from the Mersey over the Delamere hills (on or around which the 
largest Lake-district felstones are found) along the general course of 
the miscellaneous boulder-dispersions would pass over the area 
between Market Drayton and Ashley village. As already stated, 
* About Barrow (east of Chester) and the neighbouring villages large Eskdale- 
granite boulders may be seen. 
t On the beach at Dawpool, north of Parkgate, at low water, several very 
large Lake-district-felstone boulders may be seen, one 644 feet. Associated 
with thei there is a boulder 63 * 5 x 44 feet, which is somewhat Arenig-looking ; 
but there is a difficulty in understanding how Arenig boulders could have been 
transported so as to occupy so low a position in the lower clay as that to which 
this boulder probably belongs. 
