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other in a westerly direction for above 200 yards. The 
sands between and outside these banks are quite free from 
blocks of stone except some common shingle. At the last- 
named place, on the Drigg beach, is seen another accumula- 
tion of boulders known by the name of Barnscar. It is 
nearly a mile long, so far as it is exposed seaward, and may 
be longer, running from north-east to south-west, and about 
300 yards in breadth. The blocks are for the most part 
rounded and consist of green slates, porphyries, greenstones, 
and granites, ranging in size from a few feet to 33 feet in 
circumference and reaching up to 8 and 10 feet high. There 
were three stones lying in a straight line considerably larger 
than the rest. The first or most southerly was a greenstone 
7ft. Gin. in height and 33ft. in circumference, of an irregular 
oval shape. The second was also a greenstone about the 
the same size as the last, but more square in form. The 
third was a Wastdale granite not so square in shape as the 
last, and measured 7ft. high and 33ft. in circumference. In 
measuring the heights only that portion of the stones ex- 
posed was taken ; a considerable part may have been covered 
up. At both Seascales and Drigg no cliffs of till are at 
present seen on the beach there composed of drift sea sand, 
but these banks of stones appeared to him to indicate the 
former existence of a deposit of till from which the smaller 
stones and clay had been removed by the action of the sea 
in a similar manner to that which had taken place between 
the Pennystone and the present cliff to the nc Ji of Black- 
pool, alluded to in his drift paper, page 130 in vol. x, second 
sei'ies, of the Society’s Memoirs. Both deposits probably 
owe their origin to the action of ice, and are the remains of 
lateral and terminal moraines. His observations were made 
nine years since, and the banks may have altered somewhat 
in that time ; but as, to his knowledge, they have never been 
noticed by any writer in treating of the Cumberland drifts, 
lie thought it worth while to allude to them. 
