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The extreme measurement of the moraines would be about half a 
mile from east to west, with a width in their central part of about a 
quarter of a mile. In many places the rocks in this glen are beauti- 
fully polished, rounded, furrowed, and striated. 
To the spectator standing on the mountain-side to the S.E. of this 
glen, and looking down on it, the view is most striking, and the 
imagination need not be very vivid to complete the picture by the ad- 
dition of the glacier with the snow-covered mountains beyond. 
Over the wide mountainous promontory formed by the Bay of 
Kenmare on the north, and Bantry Bay on the south, all the rock 
surfaces where freshly exposed from beneath either bog or Drift, are 
more more or less rounded and striated ; in some glens these strite 
are observed at the height of 1100 feet above the sea, the direction 
varying from N. and S. to N.W. and S.E., and sometimes from N.JN'.E. 
to S.S.W. 
The mountains to the north and west of Dunmanway in the county 
Cork afford some very striking evidences of glacial action. Most of 
the rock surfaces being observed to be polished and scratched in the 
direction of N.N.W. and S.S.E., the striae being thin at the former 
and blunt to the latter point of the compass. The highest elevation 
at which I have observed these glacial marks in this district is 975 
feet, and the lowest 200 feet above the sea, thus proving that during 
the whole period required to elevate the ground 775 feet, or the 
difference between 975 and 200 feet, the conditions of the sea and 
climate were permanent and favourable to the formation and drifting 
of ice masses. 
Over the summit of Coolsnaghtig Hill, which is close to Dunman- 
way and 975 feet above the sea, and at its eastern end, called Mount 
Gunner}^, 757 feet high, the glacial strios are remarkably well de- 
veloped, and many perched boulders are scattered over both moun- 
tains ; one large block, called " Maragh," is close to the very summit 
of the latter hill. All the blunt edges of the sandstone rocks over 
both these mountains when presented to the N.N.W. are rounded 
and striated, the vertical faces of the beds being marked with hori- 
zontal striae. Over the whole of the Dunmanway district there are 
very many perched boulders, and some of them of enormous size ; one, 
called " AYhite Horse E-ock," is close to the village, and there are seve- 
ral others near to it. The largest erratic block occurs at the distance 
of three miles to the westward of Dunmanway, in a hollow on the west- 
ern flank of the mountains over Ship Lough ; it is called " {Ship Eock " 
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