THE GEOLOGIST. 



JULY 1862. 



OX THE EVIDENCE OF GLACIAL ACTION OVEE THE 

 SOUTH OF IRELAND DUEING THE DEIFT PEEIOD ; 

 AND OF A SUBSEQUENT SLIGHT ELEVATION FOL- 

 LOWED BY A DEPEESSION OF THE LAND, TO ITS 

 PRESENT LEVEL. 



By George V. Dtj Noyer, Esq., M.E.I.A. 



When "the waters were divided from the waters" and they were called 

 " seas," the level at which they were allowed to rest, being determined, 

 has ever since remained immutably fixed. With the land, however, it 

 is very different ; its elevation above the sea, and consequent outline, 



Fig. 1. View, looking west, of the perched boulder of limestone, called " Cloughvorrn," 

 south side of Kenmare valley, half a mile south of Koughty Bridge. To the right 

 is the suspension bridge over the sound at Kenmare ; in the distance the mountains 

 near Sheen, 



YOL. Y. 



