2l8 FOOTE: GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



is only between 1,500 and 1,700 above sea-level. The fort hill itself would have 

 been the roche moutonne, and not only the blocks that Dr. Fox manages to make 

 the ice push round to the eastern side of the hill. Tors and blocks have remained 

 where they were formed, because the east side of the hill has not been quarried ! The 

 doctor has to explain further what has since become of the great mountain ? Fur- 

 thermore, why was not the south-west side of the north hill glacially denuded as well 

 as the fort hill ? and why are all his " perched blocks" masses belonging to the hill on 

 which they rest? instead of rocks foreign to the locality borne thither and left there 

 by the ice, which is what glacialists understand by a " perched block." Lastly, he 

 should have explained the process by which the "Arctic lichen" that was found 

 by his friend (when sinking a well) growing on the surface of the granite had by the 

 time it came into his possession become a " fossil embedded in the rock," a once 

 molten rock formed millions of years anterior to his glacial period ! His ideas 

 on this matter seem to be not a little mixed ! 



