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in addition to these older raised beaches there are alonsf 
the shores of Belfast Lough and at points along the coast 
road from Larne northwards, remains of gravel beaches of a 
much more recent origin as shown by their slight elevation 
above the present high water mark and the better state of 
preservation in which the shells are found. 
From Larne to Waterloo, a distance of about two miles, 
this raised beach may be traced in some degree continuously. 
The present sea beach is a sloping one covered with the 
gravel of the older beach, which is about 5 to 6 feet above 
the sea level, and is being wasted yearty. 
The lowest portion visible seems to be all sand with occa- 
sional shells ; the whole deposit of sand and gravel being 
about 8 to 4 feet thick. 
In the stratum of sand occur at intervals thick beds of shells 
consisting for the most part of Patellae, Littorinae and Trochi. 
This band of shells may be traced for several yards at a 
time, amd then dies away. 
This old beach is suffering from the inroads of the sea, 
and the shore is strewn with its debris; shells that have been 
washed out may be found mixed with recent ones. 
A small detached portion of this old beach which rested 
on the lower lias rocks at Waterloo had entirely disappeared 
between my visit of last year and this. It would seem 
therefore that the land is either undergoing a slight depres- 
sion or that the currents which run along the coast are 
altering. 
Near Larne, at the junction of the band of sand with the 
gravel I found firmly imbedded in the sand, a fragment of 
bone and a tooth which has been identified by Professor 
Boyd Dawkins as a tooth of Bos longifrons. 
No. 3. 
Raised Beach along the coast between Larne and Waterloo, 5 to 10 
feet above high ivater marh. 
Patella vulgata 
„ Isevis 
Pectunculus glycymeris 
Scrobicularia piperata (1) 
Trochus cinerarius 
Littorina littoralis 
„ rudis 
,, littorea 
Purpura lapillus 
Tooth of Bos longifrons 
