264 MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



be seen of the strata, owing to the thick covering of drift, 

 but the whole of the coal-field appears to be thrown down 

 to the east to a considerable extent, and in this hollow the 

 permian beds lie. 



The conglomerate is first seen in a sawpit near the smithy, 

 at West House, lying apparently almost level. In its ap- 

 pearance it resembles the harder and upper deposit at Kirkby 

 Stephen so much as to be scarcely distinguishable from it, 

 except that in the West House deposit, in addition to the 

 limestone pebbles there are a few of red sandstone and white 

 quartz. The pebbles, some of which are rounded and others 

 angular, are cemented together with a sandy calcareous paste, 

 varying considerably in its hardness. 



On proceeding eastwards, up the valley in which flows a 

 small stream called Moregill, a fine series of the beds is seen. 

 The conglomerate at first makes its appearance as a hard 

 reddish-coloured stone, exactly like that seen at the smithy. 

 It dips to the south-west at an angle of 22°; proceeding 

 further up the brook it begins to be separated by beds pf 

 fine grained red sand; and at the quarry, were it was for- 

 merly wrought for flags, it has a dip of 55° to the south- 

 west, and contains pebbles of red sandstone and white quartz. 

 The conglomerate is seen for some distance further up in the 

 valley, with a dip reaching as high as 60°. I had no means 

 of measuring the thickness of the whole of the conglomerate 

 beds, but they must reach to near 300 feet. 



The conglomerate is succeeded by a soft red sandstone of 

 a dark red-colour, with variegated beds towards its base like 

 that seen at Belah and previously described. The former 

 bed appears to pass into the sandstone, and the latter gradu- 

 ally becomes more arenaceous until the pebbles disappear 

 altogether. It dips to the south-west at an angle of 60°. 

 The thickness of it I did not measure; but I estimate it 

 at about 500 feet of red sandstone without any pebbles. At 



