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stratum, he had detected more characteristic holes. Both 
blocks were lying in the sward above the “beach” surface, 
and were a few feet below the rock in situ , from which they 
had evidently been detached. Of the first of these speci- 
mens he exhibited a photograph. It showed in the under 
side of the edge of a projecting ledge or table of stone 
six well marked holes from fin. to lin. in diameter, and one 
an inch deep, and traces of two others. The holes were 
grouped just as Pholas holes usually are, and apparently 
were quite independent of the structural fissures of the 
stone. 
A ccording to measurement with an aneroid barometer, the 
stone in which those holes occurred was about 1,380, and 
the reef from which it had fallen about 1,400 feet in eleva- 
tion. 
If the holes were really Pholas burrows, they would indi- 
cate the elevation of these hills since the period of glacial 
action by sea or land. 
Mr. Binney F.RS., F.G.S., remarked on the great eleva- 
tion of these remains if the observations were accurate, and 
observed that they were on the west side of the hills. Mr. 
Prestwich had discovered shells in shingle on the western 
slopes of the Axe-edge hills towards Macclesfield, at the 
height of 1,150 feet. He would like to hear of observations 
on the eastern side of the Derbyshire hills if any traces of 
marine action were to be discovered there. 
Mr. Darbishire had not the specimens at hand, but 
would produce them, in connection with a series of similar 
remains from Orme’s Head, to which he proposed to call the 
attention of the Society at an early meeting. 
