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THE GEOLOGIST. 
into tlie valley of the Ebro. Again, in Languedoc and Dauphine. 
Near Nice, in the Maritime Alps, and in Lombardy. In Switzerland, 
in Sicily, and in Turkey. Not to speak of Egypt, where this rock 
has long been known to exist. 
A. D. ACWORTH. 
NOTES ON THE GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF WASTDALE, 
CUMBERLAND. 
By Edw. Hull, B.A., F.G.S. 
Dear Sie, — I had hoped this year to have been able to extend over 
the Northern portions of the Cumbrian mountains some observations 
on Glacial Vestiges which I made in 1859 over the southern slopes of 
the same range, and communicated to the Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal.'^ I have only, however, been permitted to investigate a very 
small tract along the western slopes ; but though limited to this, the 
following notes may not be without value, as there are few observa- 
tions as yet recorded of the evidences of extinct glaciers in the 
English Highlands. 
I may preface my remarks by observing that the first notices of 
glacial phenomena in the Lake district were made by Agassiz and 
Buckland in their general survey of the evidences of extinct glaciers 
in the British Islands ; but they were accompanied by very few 
special examples. It is not, however, from any want of striking 
instances that till lately they have been passed by almost without 
notice. Every valley which descends from the central watershed, 
presents the features of a glacier-channel, and is well furnished with 
roches montonnees, perched blocks, moraines, and striated rock-surfaces. 
Even the lakes, which are the special feature of this region, are in 
many instances due to the presence of terminal moraines, which have 
acted as embankments to the waters. In addition to the instances 
which I have already enumerated, I may now add that of Wast 
Water, " the wildest, the deepest, the most impressive of all our lakes, 
over whose surface the winter's frost cannot spread a crust." 
Wastdale leads up from the undulating tract of New Red Sand- 
stone which lines the coast into the very heart of the highest moun- 
tains. At its head stands Great Gable, an elevation conspicuous for 
its pyramidal outline as seen from the west. On the right of this 
rises Scawfell, the culminating point of England, 3166 feet, throwing 
out some limbs, like great buttresses, with very gracefully curved 
* Vol. xi. Glacial striae have also been observed by Professor Phillips on the 
limestone of the southern coast, and by Mr, Bryce, near Keudal. In a letter to 
the author in 1860, Mr. W. Longman states how much he was struck by the 
glacial phenomena in several localities in the Lake district. 
