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description of these. Indeed, so truly do the glacial footsteps tell 
the same tale everywhere, varying only in degree of magnificeuce, 
that it would seem there can be only one set of terms happily and 
faithfully to record it in. Furness is not without " that union of 
prominent yet rounded crag and gently curving hollow which indi- 
cates the passage of the ice-sheet, with hardly less clearness than the 
ripple on the shore tells of the retreat of the sea,"* and lit up by the 
slanting rays of the evening sun, assuredly it yields nothing in point 
of interest and loveliness to the prouder types of Scotland. Besides 
being of frequent occurrence on our moors, this feature is especially 
conspicuous on the hills at iS'ewland, and from thence, obscured a 
little by plantations to the head of the bay, where it again becomes 
traceable up the valley of the Crake. It first arrested my attention 
and had its true cause assigned to it in my note-book, after visiting 
in the autumn of last year the Roches Moutonnees in the vale of the 
Eotha at Ambleside, described by Mr. Hull,! and cited by Sir C. 
Lyell in his ' Antiquity of Man. 'J " When a geologise," says Mr. 
Geikie, " has once familiarized himself with its varieties even in one 
locality, there are not many landscapes in the country where he will 
fail to detect its presence." 
Bodies Moutonnees. — True Roches Moutonnees lie on the eastern 
outskirts of Ulvcrstone. There is one close to the railway viaduct 
over the canal ; it has been quarried, but still retains much of its 
remarkably rounded form. Another in the peat-mosses on the N.E. 
of the canal, is buried under the railway embankment ; the domed 
top long refused to afford good foundation. 
Stream Vallei/s. — In a deep narrow gill of the Silurian strata, close 
to Ulvcrstone, the striation seems to denote that the glacier in its 
progress has taken the curve of the gill, as it swerves from AV. by N. 
and E. by S. to iS. W. by N. and S.E. by S. It is difficult to fix the 
amount of frlaciation in this irill : rocks of Devonian aj^e have been 
swept out, but to wiiat extent they may have been developed it is im- 
possible to guess. I have always associated its i^laciation in point of 
age (whether correctly or not I cannot say), with the forming of 
some remarkable indentations on the moor of Osinotherley, about a 
mile distant. These miniature glens, as they might be called, are 
deep, dry, parallel hollows, having a N.AV. and S.E. direction, con- 
verging a little as they descend the moor-side, and fall into the drain- 
age line leading to Ulvcrstone. Doubtless they difter little in cha- 
racter from many other depressions on the moors, but the singular, 
almost mural outline, they assume on the horizon is very arresting 
to the eye, and although they may mark the course of occasional 
rivulets, yet it is scarcely likely they are water-formed unaided by 
ice. As yet, however, no striae have been detected in them. The 
crags in the vicinity are greatly crushed, a circumstance not alto- 
* Gcikie, ' On the Phenomena of the Glicial Diift of Scotland.' 
+ Hull, Ediu. Nov Phil. .lournal, vol. xi. p. 31, 1860. 
% U\«l. Evidenoe of vhe Antiq. of Man. 
