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The Irish Naturalist. 



September, 



many peat beds in the West Cove neighbourhood there 

 are two rows of stumps separated by about 2 feet of peat, 

 indicating a change of chmate, and a return of the damp 

 chmate favouring the growing of peat. 



The above notes will, I hope, be of interest to subsequent 

 visitors to this outlying district. Besides the very striking 

 glacial phenomena, the rapid advances of the sea, and the 

 interest attaching to the former oscillations in the level 

 of the lake, of which some account has been given above, 

 there is much to attract the student of early history. 

 Among the antiquities are beehive cells, ogham stones, 

 a cromlech, a stone circle and the ruins of an old abbey. 

 The remains of the old forests preserved in the peat bogs 

 conjure up a picture of a former more kindly age, with a 

 w^ealth of vegetation far greater than is possible on these 

 wind-swept coasts at the present day, and perhaps also 

 a more abundant if more primitive population. 



I wdsh to record my indebtedness to many of the clerks 

 of the Commercial Cable Company's staff for local infor- 

 mation and assisting in boating, driving, etc., to see the 

 country and chciting information about the coast-line 

 erosion. They are too numerous to name, but my thanks 

 are due to them all. 



NOTE. 



Ulster Myriapods. 



Irish naturalists are indebted to Mr. Nevin H. Foster for a list of the 

 Chilopoda, Diplopoda and Symph3da recorded from Ulster {Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (9), iv., t^iq. PP- 395-407. The identifications have been 

 verified by the best British and Continental authorities, so that all the 

 species hero enumerated can be confidently reckoned as members of our 

 fauna. There are 21 centipedes, 26 millipedes and 6 symphyla in Mr. 

 Foster's list, the only drawback to which is to be found in a few irritating 

 misspellings. 



