174< Mr. With AM on the Red Sandstones of Berwickshire. 



Fig. 1. 

 SECTION AT NORTH SUNDERLAND COLLIERY. 



Dip of the Strata N.E. to N. varying from 12" to 18". 



Fth. Ft. In. 

 Carb. Limestone.... <b 

 Coal B 



Freestone 11 



Bituminoui Shale...! 1 i 



Coal with a 12 in. 

 bandofShale 4 o 



-"C?- 



Pig. 2. 



SECTION OF THE STRATA ON THE SEA SHORE A QUARTER OF A MILE 



TO THE DIP OF NORTH SUNDERLAND COLLIERY. 



Red Freestone, dipping under p. 

 and conformable to the Shale, 

 and Limestone. 



" Again, about a mile and three quarters north of Goswick, or four 

 and a half miles south of Berwick, a strong bed of massive granular 

 Red Sandstone (precisely similar to that under Berwick Castle, and in 

 the cliffs east of Scremerston,) overlies a bed of Limestone, 20 feet thick. 

 These strata dip to the S. W. at an angle of 30°, and after emerging 

 from the sea, are very shortly concealed amongst the Sand and Sand- 

 stone hills forming the coast for three or four miles further south. 



" At a point* near a lime-kiln, under Major Johnson's house, about a 



* See Table of stratification between Scremerston and Berwick, page 176. 



