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famous paper on the Glaciation of Ireland, 5 6 dealing with that 
neighbourhood:— “About 3 y 2 miles from Ballymoney, on the 
new road to Coleraine, at Seccaun Quarry, smoothings and 
stnations, N.W. by W., were found by me on basalt. It was 
impossible to say in which direction the grinding agent moved 
along the lines. . . . Near Cullybackey at the distance of 
about of a mile on the road to Ballyconnelly Cross-roads, 
stnations may be seen at a basalt quarry, N.N.W. Also on the 
same rock at the very cross-roads, r mile S.W. of Cullybacky 
a good example. These are parallel to the others, but it 
must be confessed they rather look as if the grinding move- 
ment were towards the N.N.W. This, however, I suppose, 
must be impossible.” Writing to Mr. Close some three years 
ago, I mentioned our discovering rhyolites at Ballymena and 
Killagan, to which he replied : — “I am interested and pleased to 
know what you tell me of the northward movement of frag- 
ments of Templepatrick rhyolite, which confirms my reading of 
those striations to which you refer.” This is the second time 
that our glacial researches have proved the remarkable acute- 
ness of Mr. Close s reading of glacial striae,^ 
Passing Ballymena, IV., we reach at Kilwaughter, V., and 
Gleno, VI., our only two localities where drift rests directly 
upon chalk, the former at an altitude of 500 feet,, yielding only 
3 Ailsa and 2 Bauxite erratics amongst a crowd of dolerite, 
basalt, and cretaceous fragments. Gleno at 300 feet being a 
totally different deposit, crowded at its. base with Liassic frag- 
ments, its upper portion stratified, with unusually angular 
stones. Probably the basalt along this easterly coast has been 
stripped off the chalk by the impact of ice, as well as over 
Islandmagee, where magnificently glaciated surfaces of lime- 
stone are sometimes exposed in the quarry opposite Maghera- 
morne ferry, and our members are familiar with the ice-ground 
5. Notes on the General Glaciation of Ireland. By the Rev. Maxwell 
Close. Journ. Roy. Geol. Soc. Irel., Vol. I., Part 3, p 215 
6. Note on “ Glacial Geology of Kerry/’ by Miss Sydney M. Thompson. 
The Irish Naturalist, Vol. VIII., No. 3, p. 61, 1899. 
