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In Darnton toune ther is a stane, 



And most strange is yt to tell, 

 That yt turnes nine times round 



When yt heares ye clock strike tvvell. 



It is 157 ft. above sea-level, and is marked on the 25-in. Ordnance 

 Map. It is well shown on a photo of Northgate to be had from 

 Wood, picture dealer, Darlington. It is isolated, but there is both 

 gravel and sand in the immediate neighbourhood. I believe that it 

 rests on Glacial red clay, but the clay, sand, and gravel are irregularly 

 distributed through the town. I think it is red clay there. 



Note. — I have found Shap Fell granite several times in the bed 

 of the Tees, at Piercebridge and at Low Coniscliffe. Have never 

 observed it in the Wear, or rather that ])ortion of it down to Bishop 

 Auckland. 



NOTES ON SHAP GRANITE BOULDERS AT SCARBOROUGH. 



Forwarded by JOHN H. PHILLIPS, 

 Hon. Sec. Philosophical a7id Archceological Society, Scarboroiigh. 



There are very few boulders in the neighbourhood to be met 

 with. They have been broken up for road metal and for repairing 

 walls, etc. There is a fine specimen in Mr. Read's garden, The 

 Valley, Scarborough, about 4 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, and 12 m. or 14 in. 

 in thickness. It was found on the beach, embedded in sand, when 

 the foreshore was made, about six years ago. In an old disused 

 shrubbery and plantation belonging to the family of Mr. Wharton, 

 in King Street, Scarborough, are upwards of twenty boulders, 

 hunted up in the neighbourhood, chiefly on sea-beaches at Cloughton, 

 Burniston, Hayburn Wyke, etc., by the late Mr. Wharton, forty or 

 fifty years ago. The largest is about 1 1 ft. in circumference and 

 4 ft. in height, rounded like a cone. There are no striations upon 

 any of them, and apparently they have been laid on the sea-beach a 

 great length of time, and subject to the wear and tear of the ocean, 

 so that they resemble rolled stones, rounded by attrition. All the 

 preceding examples are Shap Granite. 



NOTE UPON THE ' HITCHING STONE,' KEIGHLEY MOOR. 



By the British Association Boulder Committee — Dr. H. W. Ckosskev, Hon. Sec. 



This huge block of Millstone Grit was described to the British 

 Association Committee by Mr. E. G. Spencer in 1874, as a 'boulder,' 

 and the details concerning it will be found in the Report of the 

 British Association for that year, ]). 196. 



Jan. 1 888. 



