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yards of the iron deposit was exposed, and 

 showed its relation to the two or three yards of 

 Till which bounded its upper part. In one part 

 the iron made a bend into the Till, and appeared 

 as if it had been pushed upwards, or else, that 

 the iron had been removed on both sides, thus 

 leaving a ridge in the middle before the Till was 

 deposited. 



In many parts, doubtless, portions of the iron 

 must have been washed away by the waters 

 flowing southwards, when the land, after the for- 

 mation of the Till, was raised, as the colour of 

 that deposit in the south of Low Furness plainly 

 shows. For had the iron been removed during 

 the time of the formation of the Till, the lower 

 parts of that deposit, would, in all probability, 

 have been coloured red like the upper parts, 

 and the Till at Lindal would have been coloured 

 like the same deposit further south. 



The beds of iron appear to have been formed 

 after the deposition of the carboniferous limestone, 

 and before the deposition of the upper new red 

 sandstone. The limestone rock, in some instances, 

 seems to have been only fissured, but in others 

 eroded, or water-worn, before the introduction of 



