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in the Spy Crag quarry, near Dalbeattie, in the Criffel 
district, and if so it affords a most interesting evidence of 
the northernly origin of our drift current. 
The red granite boulder -which for many years stood at 
the end of the w/atering trough at Rooden-lane, and which 
now lies in the grounds of Mr. H. M. Ormerod, at Oheetham 
Hill, is of the red granite of Muncaster Fell, near Ravenglass. 
It had been asserted by Professor Dawkins that the 
Queen’s Park boulder was of Shap granite, but the writer is 
quite certain that this is not the fact, and he has never 
found any of the Shap Fell granites in the boulder clays of 
South Lancashire. 
E. W. Binney, V.P., F.R.S., said, since the publication of 
his paper on the Drift Deposits of Manchester in Yol. VIII. 
(second series) of the Society’s Memoirs, attention had been 
directed to the preservation of large boulder stones. The 
date of that memoir was 1847, and in it was described and 
figured the fine block of grey granite now placed in Peel 
Park. It was found in the till or brick clay at Park Place, 
Higher Broughton, just below the house then occupied by 
Mr. W. Sale, and remained on the road side till about the 
beginning of 1850, when the owners of the land were dig- 
ging a hole to bury the stone, and thus get it out of the way. 
He wrote a letter to the Editor of the Manchester Guardian , 
which appeared in that paper of the 13th February, 1850, 
suggesting that the Peel Park Committee should fetch the 
stone and place it in their park. His appeal was responded 
to without loss of time, and it now is placed at the entrance 
to the park. He was glad to find that the preservation of 
this specimen had been of service in saving other large 
boulder stones from the rite of burial. He had himself seen 
the fine specimen of red granite placed in the Park at 
Macclesfield, and the large block of hard green stone, weigh- 
ing nearly 20 tons, now preserved in the Oldham Park. It 
