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Sedgwick's interesting memoir, the writer of 

 this notice, in company with two friends, Messrs. 

 Harkness and Talbot, went into Furness for the 

 express purpose of examining the magnesian 

 limestone at Stank, above described. But after 

 being engaged a whole day in traversing the 

 district around Urswick, Dalton, Stank, and 

 Furness Abbey, and making numerous enquiries 

 of the inhabitants, they gave up the search as 

 hopeless. The relation of the mountain lime- 

 stone of Urswick and Dalton, with the upper 

 new red sandstone of Furness Abbey and Dalton 

 was examined. They also saw the place in the 

 Stank valley, where searches for coal had been 

 made many years ago. Although within a quarter 

 of a mile of the place where it is met with, they 

 missed seeing the limestone, as none of the 

 people in the neighbourhood could direct them 

 to it. 



Probably the best evidence of the difficulty of 

 discovering the stone, is in the circumstance of 

 the monks of Furness having overlooked it 

 when building their splendid abbey. These 

 people, from the works left behind them, appear 

 to have possessed a most excellent knowledge of 

 the value of building stones, certainly not 

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