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In 1841 a Paper of his own was read before the Man- 
chester Geological Society, and published in its Proceedings 
for that year, on the Lancashire and Cheshire Drift, wherein 
it was stated, that the Drift in some places as near Black 
Moss, above Ramsbottom, in Walmersley, and at Pikelow, 
near Macclesfield, reached to heights of from 1,000 to 1,200 
feet above the level of the Irish Sea ; and he said that he 
had little doubt but some of the most ancient portions of it 
might have passed over the Pennine Chain, through the 
Vale of Todmorden, by the Summit Valley, above Little- 
borough, as the highest part of the last-named valley was 
not more than 612 feet above the level of the Irish Sea. 
In 1862 he took Mr. Prestwick, F.R.S., President of the 
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Geological Society, to show him the Arnfield deposit, and 
in the course of conversation that gentleman mentioned to 
him the fact of his (Mr. P.,) having seen some fossil shells in 
a bed of gravel near the turnpike road, leading from Buxton 
to Macclesfield, about three miles from the last-named place. 
Accordingly, when describing the Arnfield specimens in a 
notice published in the Proceedings of the Society for Nov. 
18, 1862, he stated that fact as having been observed by 
Mr. Prestwick. This notice led Mr. Sainter, Surgeon, of 
Macclesfield, and Mr. Green, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey, 
to hunt out and explore Mr. Prestwich’s locality, and they 
soon found it in an old gravel pit below Walker Barn, 
above Vale Royal. 
Mr. Hull, F.R.S., in his memoir of the Geology of Bolton- 
le-Moors, published in 1862, at page 29, notices the 
occurrence of Drift on Winter Hill at an elevation of 1,380 
feet. 
The late Mr. J. Whitaker, of Burnley, in 1863, described 
a bed of gravel containing chalk flints, at Barrowford, near 
the foot of Pendle Hill. See Vol. IV., p. 176, of the Trans- 
actions of the Geological Society of Manchester. 
In November, 1864, Mr. R. D. Darbiskire, F.G.S., read a 
