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The SECOND division comprehends the mountains of Eskdale,
Wasdale, Ennerdale, Borrowdale, Langdale, Grasmere, Patterdale,
Martindale, Mardale, and some adjacent places; including the two
highest mountains of the district, Scawfell and Helvellyn, as
well as the Old Man at Coniston. All our fine towering crags
belong to it; and most of the cascades among the lakes fall over
it. There are indeed some lofty precipices in the former
division; but owing to the shivery and crumbling nature of the
rock, they present none of the bold colossal features which are
exhibited in this.
Great variety of rocks are included in this division, but their
nomenclature is so far from being settled, that should two
separate catalogues be made out by different persons, they would
probably vary in a great many items. Some will find
greywackè and greywackè slate in one of the
divisions, some in another, and some in all; while others
ridicule the name as one invented to supply the defect of a
better.
Most of these rocks are of a pale-bluish or grey colour, some of
them belong to the family of the greenstones, some are of a
porphyritic, others of a slaty structure; differing however from
the slates of the last division, inasmuch as these exhibit no
distinct partings by which they are to be separated. A reddish
aggregated rock of a coarse slaty structure, is to be seen on
entering the common on the road from Keswick towards Borrowdale.
It appears
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