II.—On Traces of Glaciers in the English Lakes

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Although the causes of the configuration of the Lake district have been discussed by Mr. Mackintosh in some interesting communications to this Magazine, and the distribution of the granite blocks from Wastdale Crag formed the subject of an able paper read by Professor Phillips to the British Association at Birmingham, 1865, the glaciation of this region seems scarcely to have attracted the attention which it deserves. In the hopes, then, that some one may be induced to do for North Wales, I venture the following remarks; although, owing to want of time and other causes, they are far less complete than I could wish them to be.