. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year .. . restingboth in matter and treatment. I am grateful at havingthis opportunity of adding my testimony in appreciation ofthat gentlemans ability as an antiquary ; and that Liverpool,and this Society in particular, have sustained a great loss byhis removal from tliis neighbourhood. In his new sphere ofoccupation, I sincerely hope he may find leisure, combinedwith congenial pursuits, and a long and happy life ofusefulness. On the sea-shore of the Cheshire peninsula the new redsandstone crops out in the neighbourhood
. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year .. . restingboth in matter and treatment. I am grateful at havingthis opportunity of adding my testimony in appreciation ofthat gentlemans ability as an antiquary ; and that Liverpool,and this Society in particular, have sustained a great loss byhis removal from tliis neighbourhood. In his new sphere ofoccupation, I sincerely hope he may find leisure, combinedwith congenial pursuits, and a long and happy life ofusefulness. On the sea-shore of the Cheshire peninsula the new redsandstone crops out in the neighbourhood of the Mersey, inthe rocks locally so well known as the Red and Yellow Noses,And in the neighbourhood of the Dee, it is visible in what isknown as the Red Rocks and the Rocks of Hilbre. From each of these outcrops, the sandstone dips towardsLeasowe; the embankment erected there by the Commissionersof the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board being about midwayalong the shore of the peninsula. In this trough has been de-posited the glacial or boulder clay, and above it those beds which. GEOLOGICAL STRATA ON THE SEACOAST OF CHESHIRE, THE LKASOWE EMBANKMENT AND GREAT MOELS. OBSERVATIONS ON THE GEOLOGYAND ARCHiEOLOGY OF THE CHESHIRE SHORE. By Charles Fotter, Esq. (Read December 9th, 1875.) Although I have chosen this title for the paper, allow me tosay that I make do pretension to a knowledge of the latterscience, and to hut little of the former. I feel that, after the many years in which you listened tothe literary treats supplied you by ISIr. Henry Ecroyd Smith,what I may have to place before you will prove less interestingboth in matter and treatment. I am grateful at havingthis opportunity of adding my testimony in appreciation ofthat gentlemans ability as an antiquary ; and that Liverpool,and tbis Society in particular, have sustained a great loss byhis removal from this neighbourhood. In his new sphere ofoccupation, I sincerely hope he may find leisure, combinedwith congenial pursu
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