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we consider the thickness of the beds or the extent of the 

 surface exposed, that I have seen in the north-west of 

 England. 



Many years since, Professor John Phillips, in describing 

 the geology of the district, thus alludes to the permian beds 

 here : — 



" But at West House, on the line of the road, a curious 

 rock with a southward dip is occasionally exposed in digging 

 the foundations of houses, which resembles in composition 

 the brecciated beds alternating with new red sandstone at 

 Kirkby Stephen and Stenkreth Bridge. 



" This stone is a fine grained light coloured red sand, con- 

 taining a variety of imbedded fragments, more or less 

 rounded, apparently, according to the degree of their hard- 

 ness. Limestone fragments of gray and red colour, are the 

 most numerous, the largest and the most angular : ironstone 

 in small pieces and in different states of decomposition is 

 plentiful, and a few pebbles (granular slate) of more sandy 

 substance make up the mass, in whose interstices calcareous 

 spar ramifies as in the old red conglomerate of Kirkby Lons- 

 dale. No fossils have been found in it, except what the 

 included limestone fragments contain. It is locally called 

 *red limestone,* and is occasionally used in building, for which 

 its large thin beds are well adapted. It is unknown, except 

 about West House, where it occupies a considerable surface 

 of red soil." 



With the exception of the above description, and the allu- 

 sion made to the West House deposit by Professor Sedgwick, 

 I am not aware of any information having ever been pub- 

 lished on the subject. 



In the bed of the Greta, at Burton-in-Lonsdale, the lower 

 coal-field and some parts of the middle coal-field are seen 

 dipping to the east, and near the weir there they incline at an 

 angle of 16°. Between Burton and West House little can 



