TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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Mr. J. Price invited attention to the* geology of a Little ili-lri l. of CltbonllWwi 
limestone, at Llysfaen and Penmaen Rhos, near Abergele. The drift here itMiimrtl 
fcur distinct appearances: — 1st, flattish boulders of tntflaceouo MOdtttQI, will 
tatalte, were strewn over the surface of the elevated sheep pastures ; 2nd, the slopes 
li, arda the sea were thickly covered with drift, cumposed of native limestone in u 
rat-ltouldercd state, often scored with parallel lines, the fragment s being sometimes 
' . s across; 3rd, drift of very smooth pebbles of limestone, in a matrix of highly 
faiuiimted lime gravel ; 4th, a gravel pit at Tyn-yeoed contained mnr ♦ra-Mind 
twij'k f 1 ^ pebbles like the present beach : one of the pebbles bad bet n per- 
* • Chona. There were also lumps of clay stuck over with pebble*. This 
P to non three-quarters of a mile inland, and 300 or loo feet above 0, a level. 
On the former probable existence of Pahrozoic Glaciers. 
By Professor A. C. Ramsay, F.li.S. 
• ^ Am I molten 
" ^aabthc r : T°"> 1 l!,t V ,r 
w inotl prT t ’'t° f i t K - g , " bt ) S,,1C0 the formation of the oldest r»'ilitVroua 
„• nner words, the internal hem of the pi Itne' * —■* *■“ —13_.: - 
dthin any of the known geoh 
deal in its characters. 'The C 
lK,t '" l' ro ""i"icvd faj Dr. Hooker in 
' - 'I'U.e, „r jin! o„|'.; Uy ? clinwie; and if the \ni.u nit . Nautili, 
**""« lena than oiU i ' latitudes realty lived in 
^^Tatlier Ti l bt ‘ ‘ lfcrrod 1,5 I'-'V'iral 
t r«ded to show 3ei! C L d ! m V d . Cirt ‘ CU P r0dui1 ' 1 h y V He 
y«during a pan of thep® •' at g “T” M , ml ice,n ' 1 *' 1,11,1 '•listed in those 
^7 * ff e Pfobable traces of tho"*' 1011 < ^ 0 -' ’’ nl !‘ ,hat «W -ccon.larv rock. 
K ‘ UC,W> ” S in * ome of ll '“ Inds of the Hunter 
de y Io P°? in centi-al counties of Imglnnd, 
i*jf e J wMc h, neat- KiivilU ‘ 8 , Call ' nroous "> the 
•4 •: ,),)Ve 1 l ^ohigl.esi or . h ■. 'f" ,v - ; -- ••..n -Unn. I . About 
V: a n, . ;,s -' 1,1 .. . hri 
V Hie JW 8 an d sandstones^ v.v .■.• w»i.viu, wmen is again sue - 
fcmS 81Cal Survey in the p J', 3tc<? P tl,, « a hagment of the stem of a tree (mind 
[] ,ld 1(1 these rocks in th ° cacftrt ‘ ou * conglomerate, no IV rtnian fossils hare 
" ?*?? “ Above the lVrmian 
5, ^V],j te ai ^ ' Uetn divided as follows: — 
3 j^Pper variegated SSd"!° ne, / Wilh . il,U ‘ ,,itritifi c ation of marl. 
I ^arsc saudftono „ ' , ne ( ,nos,1 .v brick red). 
{ ^°*« variegated 8a »‘ ,d pebble be,Is. 
Tl , '• Per mian. b »andstonc (mostly brick. red • ). 
L '" 1 \i.il!i p0id 
*■ 01 Knvillp w 0r Hcwdley t| K . v If ’... a, *d in an isolated patch 
*2»S UtcSl°r ^rshirJ .'Zl oc2T tW ^-measures; i„ the nelghLir- 
P «rmwn li VV : p - »« *«», and 
‘ * C * Th '-y vary in LlS f ‘""> l ‘">t Hills to 
* found * . fro, “ * b °«‘ '00 to Rut) ftet ac- 
f 7 ,n ll " 1Vr »‘- "* '• d- lower 
% ’ A ^ley, and £ S^w. at,d1S u L'T' , ,lcar Kuvil1 -' >‘t from 
jssaiO T** . 
iyMrEiiuii 
ta,n ’ V0 ‘- H. Par, • SeC h,s w ^k in the « Memoir, of the Geo. 
