The Glacial Phenomena of the Eden Valley and the Western Part of the Yorkshire-Dale District

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I n the following paper it is proposed to take up the investigation of the North-Anglian glacial phenomena in the district north of that treated of by Mr. Tiddeman in his paper on the Evidence for the Ice Sheet in North Lancashire, &c.*, to carry on the observations northward among the Carboniferous dales on the eastern side of the Lake district, and to endeavour as far as possible to throw some light upon the glacial phenomena of the Eden valley. Most of the facts were obtained in the course of the Geological Survey of the district by Professor Hughes and the writer, and are given here with the permission of the Director–General. Those relating to much of the Eden valley, properly so called, were collected by the writer in his holiday rambles in 1873–4, and are introduced here to supplement the more detailed observations that have been made on the part of the district hitherto mapped by the Survey. The Ice Sheet, and Boulder–transportal. The physical features of the district need not be described in detail, as the accompanying map (Plate II.) will give a better idea of them than could be gathered from many pages of description. There are, however, a few points to which it is desirable that attention should be called, in order that the following remarks may be the better understood. Generally speaking, we may say that the greater part of the high ground of which Ingleborough, Whernside, and Gragreth form parts lies to the E.S.E. of

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