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Notes and Comments. 



, MARBLE AS A VOLCANIC ROCK. 



We then learn (p. 13), that ' One cannot visit the Itahan 

 marble quarries of Carrara without receiving the impression 

 that the marble beds were ejected, accompanied by high- 

 pressure steam, from a fissure, and showered down ; and it is 

 the same with the marble of Mount Parnassus in Greece. 

 The geological peculiarities of Java will therefore well repay 

 careful examination ; and identification of its volcanically- 

 laid strata seems capable of becoming a turning point in geolo- 

 gical theory,' etc., etc. This pamphlet has a moral : Keep 

 away from Java ! 



BETWEEN PATRINGTON AND EASINGTON I AUGUST. 



A white road, stretching far, with margins green 

 Of cool, soft grass, and hedges thin and low, 

 But bright with undergrowth, and the soft glow 



Of sunfioods pure, enriching the fair scene. 



A wealth of Bramble-blossom, and the sheen 



Of frail and painted wings, where light winds blow 

 From the wide Humber's tranquil summer-flow 



O'er harvest fields, where patient sowers glean. 



A grace of wild flowers peeping here and there, 

 From the low grass and herbage of the way. 

 Where Nature maketh seeming holiday 



With bloom and butterfly and leafage fair. 



But where sweet Purpose, from her dalliance gay 



Shall seeming loss with teeming wealth repair. 



Edward Lamplough. 



glacial and post-glacial features. 



In the ' Geographical Journal ' for July Mr. G.W. Lamplugh, 

 F.R.S., writes ' Ph^^siographical Notes No. i,' in which he con- 

 trasts the fresh-looking features of the mounds of glaciated 

 areas with the adjacent valleys where obviously considerable 

 erosion has taken place since the Glacial Period. He cites 

 ' the morainic mounds of the Vale of York and of Flamborough 

 Head, and the moundy sands and gravels of Holderness, in 

 their anomalous relation to the huge post-glacial deposits of 

 the Humber and of the Vale of York, and to the erosion-features 

 generally observable where post-glacial streams have traversed 

 drift-covered country. The phenomena of deeply incised 



Naturalist, 



