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No. 3. On the road-side near farm-house called Hill Top or 

 Thief Hole Farm; 3 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 9 in. x 2 ft. 9 in.; all above 

 ground; rounded a little, angular in some parts; has been moved; 

 taken out when foundation was dug of an adjacent building; isolated; 

 rests on clay ; Close-grained Trap or highly altered fine Ash. 



North Otterington. 



In township of North Otterington ; on Otterington Farm, in field 

 near the entrance gate from Northallerton-road, and about 300 yds. 

 on the road from North Otterington Church; 4 ft. x 2 ft. 11 in.;, 

 height above ground — one side, i ft. 6 in.; the other, 3 to 4 in. : 

 somewhat wedge-shaped ; angles all rounded ; has been moved ; 

 there are four ruts running longitudinally on the top and in the 

 direction of longest axis; Granite; rests on gravel. 



NORTH STAIXLEY, NEAR RIPOX. 



Rev. R. a. SUMMERFIELD, 

 Vicar of XortJi Stai7iley. 



In the parish of North Stainley, near the hamlet of North Leys, 

 and about 100 yds. from the 'Smithy' (so marked on the 6-in. 

 Ordnance Map), on the west side of the road to North Stainley, is. 

 a boulder ; 3 ft. 3 in. x 2 ft. 5 in. x i ft. 7 in. ; sub-angular ; it has 

 been moved from the adjoining field to the place it now occupies 

 about twenty years, being a hindrance to ploughing, etc. ; Carboni- 

 ferous Gritstone ; about 170 ft. above sea-level; connected probably 

 with a long gravel ridge, which is about two miles in width, and 

 which abuts on the western bank of the River Ure and underlies all 

 the parish ; in this ridge are a large quantity of scratched, grooved, 

 and polished blocks, varying much in size ; one block — 5 ft. x 3 ft. x 

 I ft. 3 in. — is a mass of large producti. 



THE NORBER GROUP OF BOULDERS. 



J. W. DAVIS, F.G.S., F.S.A., etc., 

 Hoti. Sec. I 'orkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. 



At Norber near Clapham, Yorkshire, extending over an area of 

 three-fourths of a mile square, are several hundreds of boulders. 

 They are of Silurian Grit resting upon Mountain Limestone, and of 

 all sizes up to 16 and 20 ft. in diameter. They are angular ; they 

 show slight striations on under surface rarely, but are not easily 

 determined. From 800 to 1,250 ft. above sea-level. Rock identical 



Nov. 18S8. 



