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On the east side of Carrock Fell there is a mass of granitic- 
looking rock called Hypersthenite. Fragments of this rock can 
readily be detected wherever they are seen. They are plentiful in 
the Vale of Caldew north of Linewath, but I have not found any 
to the south of that place. I have also found them at Carlisle, | 
Flimby, St. Bees, Salter Hall, Braystones, and Sellafield. 
Around the granite bosses of Skiddaw Forest and the upper 
Caldew there occurs a curious looking rock called Spotted Schist, 
boulders of which occur on every side of the cluster of hills formed 
by Skiddaw, Blencathra, Carrock, and the Caldbeck Fells. I 
have also found them at Maryport, Flimby, St. Bees, Moresby 
Parks, Ennerdale Bridge, Braystones, and Sellafield. 
Another stone of peculiar appearance is the Syenite of 
Buttermere and Ennerdale, than which no rock in the district, 
that can be identified, has given off a larger number of boulders. 
They are scattered over the ground everywhere, in fact, from the 
Vale of Lorton to the Bleng, and from the level of the sea shore 
to an altitude of 2000 feet. On the lower ground they may be 
found all the way from Carlisle on the north, to Millom on the 
south ; and Mr. Goodchild has, I believe, found them on the top 
of Stainmoor, in Yorkshire. If so, they must have gone round the 
north side of Caldbeck Fells.* Probably also they made their way 
beyond Carlisle through the Tyne Valley to the East Coast.t 
They are also plentiful in Furness. 
Another easily recognised rock is the Eskdale Granite, which, 
as its name indicates, occurs about Eskdale. Boulders of this 
rock are numerous in the Valleys of the Mite and Esk, and south 
wards along the lower ground to Millom, and even into Furness. 
On the side of Black Comb, they occur as high as 1000 feet above 
the sea. Northwards from the mouth of the Mite, I have not 
been able to find any. 
From Millom northwards to Carlisle, along the low ground 
between the western and northern hills of the Lake Country and 
* Ennerdale Syenite is common in the drifts all through the Eden Valley 
from Stainmoor to Carlisle. (Ed.) 
+ Since this was written, I have found St. John’s Quartz Felsite and 
Ennerdale Syenite at Haydon Bridge, which is some miles to the cast of the 
water-shed of the Tyne valley. 
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