438 GLANCE AT THE GEOLOGY OF 



ores of Furness. As previously stated, it is 

 bounded by the upper silurian rocks, running a 

 little south of Ulverstone, to near Ireleth, on 

 the north, and by the new red sandstone forma- 

 tion on the south and west. 



The valleys in which the present watercourses 

 flow, all run nearly north and south, and are 

 generally on lines of dislocation of the limestone. 



The rock above Bardsea is quarried for making 

 lime for agricultural purposes. Its upper portion 

 is for the most part of deep red colour, owing 

 to the presence of red oxide of iron. The dip 

 of it is there east of south. The rock shortly 

 afterwards appears to have a more easterly dip, 

 and is exposed all the way to Scales, where it 

 seems to have been thrown down by one of those 

 north and south faults before alluded to. 



Just before you enter Scales, and after you 

 have reached the fault last named, by the pond 

 on the roadside, there is a bed of black shale 

 and some fragments of hard dark blue limestone. 

 In company with my friends, Messrs. Harkness 

 and Talbot, I some years ago found in this bed 

 a considerable variety of shells and corals, which 



