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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 called the mountain, or carboniferous
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,
Witherslack, Cartmel, Dalton, and Millum, from whence for some
distance its place is occupied by the sea; and in the
neighbourhood of Gosforth and Calder Bridge, a red sandstone
intervenes, so that the limestone is either wanting or buried
under more recent formations. It dips from the mountains on every
side, but with different degrees of inclination; the declivity
being generally least on the southern side. In the neighbourhood
of Witherslack it forms lofty isolated ridges, while the
subjacent slaty rock appears in the lower ground; and it may be
seen upon the surface as far as Warton and Farleton Crags, and
even as far as Kellet, before it is covered by the sandstone of
the coal measures. A remarkable exception, however, occurs in
Holker Park, where the mountain rock is succeeded by limestone,
and that by sandstone and shale, resembling that which
accompanies coal - all within a very short distance. On the north
and west of the mountains, the inclination of the newer rocks
appears to be greater and the strata thin-
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