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represented at all at Aspatria, being higher than any there, is seen. 

 Its uppermost member is a thick sandstone, which may very likely 

 represent the Whitehaven Sandstone. 



I have remarked that Mr. Kendall has shown his recognition of 

 the thickening of the measures at Aspatria and of the correspond- 

 ence of the lower coals at the two places by connecting lines, but 

 that he has not joined the Ten Quarters Coal of BuUgill with that 

 of Aspatria, though the latter is just where it should be, judging 

 from the correlation of the lower coals. The explanation seems to 

 be that, according to some singular preconception on Mr. Kendall's 

 part, the Ten Quarters Coal of Aspatria ought to be in the White- 

 haven Sandstone. He has accordingly placed the base of that 

 rock at Aspatria, just above the Thirty-inch Coal ; while at BuU- 

 gill it is very much higher, being many fathoms above the Ten 

 Quarters. Now while we carry upward Mr. Kendall's correlation 

 of the lower coals, and keep our lines to the top of the Aspatria 

 pit, nearly parallel with his, we meet with no difficulty ; the reverse 

 is the case if we adopt his view as to the base of the Whitehaven 

 Sandstone. For the sections in his supposed Whitehaven Sand- 

 stone are utterly unlike each other. And it is curious to note that 

 taking Mr. Kendall's line for the base of the Whitehaven Sandstone 

 at EUenborough, Bullgill, and Aspatria ; we find that the two 

 places most distant from each other show the nearest correspond- 

 ence, as regards that rock, the intermediate place, Bullgill, differing 

 more from the two others than they do from each other. In fact, 

 a glance at the sheet of sections generally will produce the 

 impression (I think) that the upper beds at Bullgill differ decidedly 

 from those of EUenborough, Aspatria, and Bolton, *nd resemble 

 those ot Cleator Moor and Whitehaven. And that if the upper 

 beds at Cleator Moor, Whitehaven, and Bullgill belong to the 

 Whitehaven Sandstone series, those of EUenborough, Aspatria, 

 and Bolton do not. 



In any case, as the upper beds at the three last-named places 

 all contain coals of more or less importance, it is highly improbable 

 that the Whitehaven Sandstone has had any wide-spread influence 

 in removing the upper coal-seams on the other side of the 



