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THE HEMATITE DEPOSITS OF CUMBERLAND AND 

 LANCASHIRE. 



By J. D. Kendall, C.E., F.G.S., (Whitehaven). 



(Abstract./^ 



The writer after briefly noticing some of the principal facts which 

 have been brought to light in working these deposits (those in the Carb. 

 Lime.) went on to show that none of the explanations hitherto offered as 

 to the manner in which the deposits originated could be considered at 

 all satisfactory, and then proposed that it is only on the assumption of a 

 Chemical replacement process that all the facts at present known can be 

 explained. The facts on which he principally rests that hypothesis are 

 the occurrence in the hematite of fossils similar to those found in the 

 Carboniferous limestone, and the existence of thin bands of shale which 

 run completely through the ore and into the limestone. 



* The Author reserves the full details of this paper for the present. 



