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neighbourhood. This has been taken by some to belong to the old
red sandstone formation; but whether it passes under or only
abuts against the adjacent limestone, I have not yet myself had
an opportunity of observing; but have been told that their
junction may be seen near Shap Abbey; and in a quarry near
Greystoke.
A large mass of similar composition appears in the bed and on the
banks of the river Lune at Kirkby Lonsdale. Its dip indicates
that it should pass under the limestone which appears at a little
distance; but, in that case, how it came to contains nodules of
limestone I am at a loss to understand. Something of the same
kind also appears in the river Mint, from two to three miles
above Kendal; where it may be seen to rest upon the blue rock;
and wherever the subjacent rock can be seen, it is always deeply
coloured by the iron of the conglomerate. A layer of similar
appearance is interstratified with the red sandstone at Barrow
Mouth near Whitehaven, and a still newer formation of the same
kind adjoins the Cartmel sands near Humphrey Head.
A superincumbent bed of limestone, by some called the mountain,
by others the upper transition limestone, mantles round these
mountains, in a position unconformable to the strata of the slaty
and other rocks upon which it reposes. It bassets out near
Egremont, Lamplugh, Pardshaw, Papcastle, Bothel, Ireby, Caldbeck,
Hesket, Berrier, Dacre, Lowther and Shap; it appears again near
Kendal,
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