at the New Alexandra Dock , Belfast. 
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rests, at different points, on fine red sand, gravel, or fine red clay ; but before 
we have reached low-water level, we come upon the coarse Boulder Clay with 
pebbles, which at this place is therefore some ninety feet higher than in the 
Lagan Valley a mile to the westward, as shown by the King Street borings. 
This concludes my brief notice of the Post-pliocene deposits of the Lagan 
Estuary. The Belfast beds have now been pretty well examined, and our 
knowledge of them is tolerably complete ; but there is still an ample field for 
research in the similar clays which are to be found in almost all our loughs and 
bays ; and it is to be hoped that other members of our Club will devote some of 
their time and attention to these interesting deposits— the latest page of the 
great mysterious volume of geological history. The clay at Magheramorne is 
famous for the profusion of Foraminifera, some of them of great rarity, which 
it yields,* and its richness in large fossils is apparent from the fact that during 
one visit— my only visit to it— no less than seventy-one species of fossils were 
noted, Microzoa excluded. Further examination of this deposit will without 
doubt result in considerable additions to this number. 
* See Wright— “ Post- tertiary Forams., N.E. Ireland,” Proceedings Belfast Naturalists’ 
Field Club, Vol. I., Appendix II. 
