150 J. E. Marr—Drainage of the English Lakes. 
II].—On tHe SupreRimposeD DRAINAGE OF THE HnGuisH LAKE 
District. 
By J. EK. Marr, M.A., Sec. G.S. 
«V7 HAT was the condition of our present mountain tract during 
the great Carboniferous period? Was it wholly submerged 
after the elevation and denudation to which we have already seen 
it subject, or was there always a nucleus of dry land—an embryo 
of Cumbria—around which the Carboniferous deposits were laid 
down? I do not think this is a question that can ever be decidedly 
answered.” ? 
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It is a question which has frequently been asked, and the answers 
given are various. In the present communication I intend to look 
at it from a somewhat different point of view from that in which it 
has usually been approached, though the view here adopted in many 
respects resembles that taken by the late Mr. Hopkins. The exact 
On the Physical History of the English Lake District, by the Rev. J. C. Ward. 
Grou. Maa. Dec. II. Vol. VI. p. 58. 
2 On the Elevation and Denudation of the District of the Lakes of Cumberland 
and Westmoreland, Q. J. G. S. vol. iv. p. 70. 
