THE GEOLOGIST. 
JULY 1862. 
OX THE EVIDENCE OE GLA.CIAL 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 
PEESENT LEVEL. 
By George V. Du Noyer, Esq., M.E.I.A. 
When "the waters were divided from the waters" and thej 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 " Cloughvorra," 
south side of Kenraare valley, half a mile south of Roughty Bridge. To the right 
is the suspension bridge over the sound at Kenraare ; in the distance the mountains 
near Sheen. 
VOL. V. 
