Boulders of Shap Granite are plentiful near Kendal. How got they there? Speaking generally, the dispersal of Lake country rocks took place radially; the ice flowed out on all sides from the Lake mountains, following very much the direction of the present water drainage. The Shap granite area is situated at the extreme south-eastern end of the Lake mountains. The greater part of this area, sloping northward, drains into Wet Sleddale, whose waters forming the river Lowther, flow north, and joining the Eden, go out to sea by the Solway. The remaining portion, facing southwards, overlooks Wastdale Beck. This beck flows north-east along the strike of the rocks to Shap Wells; here its waters turn sharp at more than a right angle, and thence flow south-south-east to join the Lune at Tebay. Had the Shap granite boulders, then, travelled south along the present water drainage, it would have been down the gorge of the Lune, below Tebay. But they did not go down the Lune. On Mr. Goodchild’s map to illustrate the glacial phenomena of the Eden Valley ( Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxi.), the southern limit of the dispersal of Shap granite boulders on that side is drawn close to Tebay; nor have I noticed them, in the depression extending from Kendal to the river Lune, further east than Docker Garth. On the other hand, I have traced these boulders north of Kendal, directly towards the granitic area. It seems, then, that these boulders came nearly due south from …