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REPORT — 1856. 



suits, but I did not feel authorized by my observations to draw the same con 

 elusions. The section, as it appeared to me, is given in Diagram No. 10. 



We are indebted to the same observer for observations of the same gene 

 ral character in the Lake x- 1 1 i?;^ i o 



district 01 Lngland. *= 



The Diagrams 1 1 and 

 12 represent sections from ■S 



north to south, through % 



Siiiddaw and the region of | 



the Borrowdale Fells, as far ^ 



as Watendlath, drawn on 

 the same plan as Diagrams 

 8 and 9. „. - 



In these sections the axes « 



of cleavage and stratifica- I 



tion are identical in place | 



and in strike ; the strata and 

 cleavage agree in the di- 

 rection of their dip ; they 

 agree even in the angle of 

 dip on the soutii side of the 

 axis of elevation (45°), but 

 from this point southward 

 the dip of the beds grows 

 less and less till we reach 

 the synclinal, where it is 

 '25°, while the dip of the | ! 

 cleavage grows greater and ^ 

 greater till at the synclinal "S 

 it is vertical. The strike g 

 of the beds varies from N. « 

 15° E. to N. 30° E. That ^ 

 of the cleavage is generally 

 N. 60° E., but varies from 

 N. 4-5° E. to N. 75° E. 



I have lately followed 

 this section with attention 

 in Borrowdale, Watendlath 

 and Skiddaw. It appears 

 to correspond in the south- 

 ern part with the cleavage 

 dips of the region, but the 

 dips of the strata are more 

 various in direction and 

 angle than the section 

 shows. The cleavage dips 

 are vertical about Watend- 

 lath, and in the parallel 

 valley about Rosthwaite on 

 lines N. 67° E. (E.N.E.) 

 In descending Borrowdal 

 as far as Bowderstone, this 

 direction of cleavage stiike 



is frequently observable, with a dip to the southward growing less^and less 

 (<.;'2°-72°), while flic dip of tlie strata is also southward (45°-24'°). Still 



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