^{page 564 note 2} The so-called surface-blocks are those which have escaped being buried, or which have been disinterred by farmers. The boulders of granite and other rocks are found principally in the lower Boulder-clay, but they are not absent from the upper.

^{page 564 note 3} Nearly all the boulders are more or less rounded.

^{page 565 note 1} Accompanying the granitic drift, especially on the sea-coast, there are numerous pebbles, and occasional boulders of dark, hard, fine-grained whinstone, which would appear to have come from the Scottish side of the Solway Firth, where, in many places, it is the prevailing rock.

^{page 566 note 1} Mr. Eccleston, of the Fawcett Schools, Carlisle, informs me that he has found boulders of Criffell granite as far east as Gillsland, and as far south as Whit beck, near Bootle. If I recollect rightly, there are numbers of them in the West-Midland counties.

^{page 566 note 2} I have to thank the Messrs. Newall, of the Craig Nair (Dalbeattie) Granite Works, for corroborating my views, founded on Professor Sedgwick's theory, relative to the derivation of the Cumberland boulders.

^{page 567 note 1} I have lately found that limestone drift (including a split-block 10 feet in diameter and of unknown thickness) from the N. or W. has been left on the western slope of Dent Hill, near Cleator, by a current which, at a greater or less angle, must hare been crossed by the above-mentioned syenitic and porphyritic drift from Enner-dale, which covers nearly the whole of Dent Hill (Skiddaw Slate) up to the summit, near to which, at 1,100 feet above the sea, there is a boulder, 8x8x5 feet, called Samson's Cobble, or the Finger Stone, consisting of rock midway between porphyry and syenite.

^{page 567 note 2} Here it forms a plateau, and rests partly on rock and partly on the reddish-brown clay.

^{page 568 note 1} In Professor Harkness' paper on Shapfell Blocks in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. for November, it is stated that Shapfell granite does not occur in the Boulder-clay of the Eden valley, though Criffell granite is found in this clay. The Eden yalley clay may hare nearly ceased to accumulate before the high-level granite of Wasdale Crag began to be dispersed, and imbedded in the pinel or Boulder-clay of the mountains, in which it is associated with polished and striated stones and boulders. (See article on Shapfell Soulders, Geol,. Mag., Aug., 1870.)