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Across the low country northwards, extending to the Kibble 

 and thence along the Fylde district and other parts of North 

 Lancashire, I am not aware that any evidence has yet been 

 obtained of the existence of permian beds until we reach 

 Rougham Point, near Humphrey Head, Flookborough, and 

 the small village of Stank both across Morecambe Bay, in 

 the hundred of Furness. The former of these I shall now 

 shortly describe. 



Rougham Point Section. 



N.N.W. E.8.E. 



Rough&m Point. Humphrey Head. 



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Alluvium 4 AUuvium 



Professor Sedgwick states " that the red sandstone is 

 probably expanded under the low region at the south-western 

 extremity of Cartmel Fells, as it is said to have been reached 

 in two places by excavations, and it appears as a very 

 characteristic conglomerate, unconformable to the mountain 

 limestone near Flookborough Spaw. No traces of it have, 

 I believe, been discovered on the neighbouring coasts of 

 Westmoreland and Lancashire ; but it re-appears (far beyond 

 the limits of the country I am attemptiiig to describe) in a 

 small patch, at West House, near Ingleton ; as has been 

 already noticed by Professor Phillips."* Also, "that in the 

 Cartmel promontory the new red conglomerates appear at 

 Rougham Point, west of Humphrey Head; and the red sand- 



* On the New Red Sandstone Series in the basin of Eden and North- West 

 coasts of Cumberland. Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. IV. (Vnd 

 series) p. ;1K9. 



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