the evident earth -waves of the district do — roughly ENE. 

 and WSW. Across these a line of disturbance cuts, and at 

 this point throws the outcropping beds into a form resembling 

 a theatre, or a pile of cups one within another; in each 

 circle of which, broken and dislocated, lie the basins. Among 

 many such cases, an accessible and striking one occurs in the 

 Coniston Series (this of Rowan-tree Hill is in the Bannisdale Slate) 

 at the angle between the road from Ambleside to High Cross, 

 and that leading from it, near High Cross, to the Tarns. 



4. Compound Basins. A great number are not very perfect 

 in this theatral configuration ; occurring just at the clash of cross- 

 waves in their most marked intensity. It is no exaggeration to 

 w ' i,^-!/ M ~ say that there are scores of such, 



^ -' v' i \f^ ^^^7i ? ixoxa. a dozen yards to some hundreds 

 ^r ur mo '^ K^^ ■' 



* ^.e^j^^-'- ■ ■■ of yards in diameter. A complicated 



i^r'^^ '1 - - ' example of this kind is given in the 



■ Wk ' ^ ^ niap (Fig. 3), which shews Great 



I ^( \ t f Candlestick Moss with parts of two 



U {|r^^^-^i_'^''- - Other basins, situated not far from 



^ ^^)'^ ^^ t*^^ ^P°^ shewn in Fig. 2, and con- 



, fe ^ taining the anticlinal dome sketched 



''^ -'>'-*- - " ^f^" in Fig. I, which is here marked by a 



i» ^ss£ — ^itlyetr^s Small circlc. The arrows denote 



li^- 5. observed dips; the broken lines, 



anticlinal axes, as well as I can make them out from the bedding 



and from the other indications of structure, such as the strike of 



ridges, which, in this country, generally indicate the strike of 



earth-waves. It will be seen that the depression lies irregularly 



at the intersection of a steep synclinal axis with other synclinal 



axes. In Fig. 2, one semicircular synclinal produced several 



basins : in Fig. 3 one basin is formed out of the union of several 



synclinal pits. 



In the Volcanic Series of Borrowdale we have less opportunity 



for ascertaining structure on a small scale, owing to the massiveness 



