LOW FURNESS, LANCASHIRE. 427 



The gravel and sand composing the rounded 

 hills in Low Furness, especially that in the 

 interior of them, is generally untinged by the 

 red colour so universally shown in the neigh- 

 bouring surface soils. 



New Red Sandstone. — The whole of this 

 formation in all its English divisions of upper 

 red marls, upper new red sandstone, lower red 

 marls, magnesian limestone, and lower new red 

 sandstone has not been met with in Low Furness. 

 The only representatives of it yet found are the 

 upper new red sandstone and the magnesian 

 limestone. There is, however, a probability of 

 the lower new red sandstone being found under 

 the magnesian limestone when that stratum is 

 perforated. 



The upper new red sandstone occupies the 

 low country, south of Bardsea, by Aldingham, 

 Rampside to Barrow Head, and the district lying 

 between the last named place and Dalton, and 

 extending westwards to the mouth of the Duddon. 

 Its exact range is very difficult to determine, 

 owing to the thick covering of drift, but it is 

 well exposed in the valley of Beckansgill, espe- 

 cially near to Furness Abbey, and in the railway 



