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stones found in the beds of the rivers Kent and Lune; thus furnishing materials for paving the streets, and repairing the roads in the vicinity.
A rock of fine-grained sienite is observed near the foot of Coniston Lake; and one containing a large portion of mica appears in Crosthwaite. The strata seams are more distinct this than in the preceding division; but, like that, it is not marked by any natural partings in the plane of cleavage. A quarry one mile from Brathay on the road towards Hawkshead, yields excellent flags for flooring; and they are manufactured into tombstones with good effect, by Mr. Webster of Kendal, and by Mr. Bromley of Keswick. This quarry affords a good example of the stratification (or, as some will have it, the rhomboidal crystallization) of these rocks. The cleavage is here nearly perpendicular; and the strata, being from one foot to five in thickness, dip to the south-east at an angle of about thirty degrees. In some districts the layers are so much diminished in thickness, that slates and tables are formed in the plane of the stratification, instead of that of the cleavage; and this has probably given rise to the notion of two distinct cleavages crossing each other under a certain angle. Roofing slate (called black slate, to distinguish it from the pale-blue of the second division) is manufactured in large quantities in the district between Ulverston and Broughton; which is well situated for shipping either by the river Duddon or by canal from Ulverston.
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