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New Red Period, and we have clear evidence that the New Red 

 may cover up rocks belonging to almost every horizon in the 

 Carboniferous Series, from the highest rocks occurring in the district 

 down to the older rocks near the base of the Carboniferous Series. 

 Consequently, in speculating upon the probabilities of coal occur- 

 ring under the Red Rocks of the Edenside, which the mention of 

 the discovery primarily referred to in this communication is sure 

 to induce many to do, it has to be borne in mind, not only that 

 the various coal fields of the Basin of the Solway, and therefore ot 

 the rocks extending under the New Red of Edenside, occur on 

 divers and widely-separated horizons in various parts of the great 

 pile of the Carboniferous rocks that in late Palaeozoic times 

 probably enveloped greater part of the whole district ; but that 

 this great pile of Carboniferous rocks was greatly faulted, disturbed, 

 and denuded before it was covered up by the thick deposit of New 

 Red that, at the present day, forms the surface rock of so large a 

 portion of the district. It follows, therefore, that although the 

 preservation of the great thickness of the Upper Carboniferous 

 Rocks occurring in the Stainmoor Coal Field may convince us of 

 the former extension of the true Coal Measures over our district, 

 the' important question of the existence, or the nonexistence, of 

 coal-bearing beds beneath the New Red of any other part of the 

 district still involves as complicated calculations as heretofore. 



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