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have partly been brought up by a fault ranging along the south side 

 of the Skibeden Valley ; ^ but on the north they dip regularly under 

 the Yoredale and Millstone-grit beds. On that side, where the series 

 is much clearer than on the south, there are two limestones above 

 the Mountain Limestone. On the south side of the Skibeden Valley 

 and anticlinal the Kinder Scout grit strikes E. and W. along Skiptoii 

 and Draughton Moors, and descends to the river Wharfe north of 

 Addingham. Its high southerly dip carries it up the slope of 

 Langbar Moor, it base running just below Bearasley Beacon ; it 

 then, under the influence of a branch of the Skipton anticlinal, 

 plunges down northward to Kex Beck, where the beds bend up 

 again and rise northward to Hazlewood Moor and Bolton Park ; 

 here, on the strike of the Skipton anticlinal, the beds bend over 

 northward and recross the Wharfe below Laund House ; south of 

 this, as far as Bolton Abbey, limestones and shales of the Yoredale 

 series are seen along the river. These are cut off opposite Bolton 

 Abbey by a N.E. fault bringing in the upper beds. The so-called 

 Yoredale grits run along the slopes of Skipton Moor to Fairfield 

 Hall ; and east of the Wharfe are found about Beamsley and 

 Storriths. They have not been everywhere identified on the north 

 side of the Skibeden Valley. On the west side, though the beds are 

 in several places broken by N.W. faults, yet their general run is 

 tolerably plain. A set of bold crags marks the escarpment of the 

 Kinder Scout grit along Halton and Embsay Moors, Eylstone, 

 Burnsall, and Thorp Fells. Beneath the western escarpment of the 

 Kinder Scout grit, the Yoredale grit is found forming at intervals 

 promontories on the sides of the fells, probably caused by a local 

 hardening of the rock, which appears to be of a very variable 

 character. It has not been traced further east than the northern 

 extremity of Burnsall Fell. The Kinder Scout grit, whose escarp- 

 ment has been briefly indicated above, lies in the shape of a syn- 

 clinal trough dipping east, and thus occupies with its various mem- 

 bers the whole extent of Burnsall Fell, Barden, and Embsay Moors. 

 The rock is well seen along the river ¥/harfe, particularly at the 

 celebrated ' Strid' in Bolton Woods. On the east of the Wharfe these 

 grits rise up in a sort of broken dome with a quaquaversal dip to 

 form the summit of Barden Fell, well marked by the bold crags of 

 Simon Seat, whence a magnificent view is to be had, and York 

 Minster may be seen on a clear day. Near these crags, at the very 

 summit of the fell, 1700 feet above the sea, some jDot- holes (one of 

 which, in the dialect of the country, is, from its great size, called the 

 Great Shak) indicate the presence of limestone at no great distance. 

 The beds may be seen in Howgill and on the path through Fell 

 Plantation, dipping steeply to the N.AV. into the valley ; but along 

 the Skyreholme beck they turn up again, and dip steeply to the S.E. 

 From Appletreewick the grits are seen striking north-eastward, 

 underlain by a mass of shale, from beneath which massive white 

 scar limestone rises regularly with a similar strike, as far as a set of 



^ I now consider it doubtful whether there is not also a fault along the north side 

 of Skibeden. 



