connected with the creation of the basins described below (seeFig. 3), 

 could have been produced by glacial disturbance of great loose 

 blocks, or by any action except such as created that undulation and 

 contortion of bed which characterises this, or any other, mountain- 

 district. In this particular anticlinal dome no basin, worthy of the 

 name, exists ; the scale, as shewn by the figure carrying sticks, 

 being extremely small ; which makes the instance more striking as 

 an example of the finesse of Nature's rock-modelling. Magnify 

 this example some hundreds of diameters, and you increase the 

 little rock-pool among the furze into a fair-sized tarn. In our 

 neighbourhood I have not as yet seen many examples of the kind ; 

 and such as exist need no .farther illustration. 



3. Minor Basins, synclinal. Simple synclinal structures in 

 which peat-mosses lie are common : and the position of the basin 



is generally as shewn in 

 Fig. 2, which gives five small 

 basins and the rocks sur- 

 rounding them, and dia- 

 grammatically suggests their 

 converging dip. Rowan-tree 

 Hill, three miles south of 

 Bowness, on which they 

 stand, is built of steeply- 

 sloping slate-beds, for the 

 most part following the un- 

 dulations of parallel earth- 

 waves, running — as most of 



