Kinder Scout. 327 



If from the Snake Inn on the Grlossop road you 

 climb the High Peak, or, as it is often called, Kinder 

 Scout, taking Fairbrook as your route, you first pass 

 across shales with beds of Yoredale grit, over which the 

 water falls in tiny cascades, and at length, high on the 

 top, the view is barred by a great cliff of rock running 

 in a sinuous line to 'right and left. It consists of coarse 

 quartzose sandstone, covered in great part by about 12 

 feet of peat, which in all directions is intersected by 

 devious steep-sided water-worn channels, among which, 

 in trying to work out a straight course, you are apt to 

 return to the point from whence you started. If you 

 could from a balloon look down upon it, it would 



FIG. 64. 



look somewhat as in fig. 64, its whole length being 

 about 6 miles by 2 in breadth. This is the character 

 of the country. Kinder Scout is in the centre of a long, 

 low, anticlinal curve, and the strata lie nearly flat, 

 while to the right and left the equivalent strata form 

 definite scarps, dipping in opposite directions. 



Where bare of peat, the surface of this little 

 tableland is marked by numerous monumental-looking 

 pillars of stone, sometimes undercut, which helps to 

 show how high flat areas of such rocks are worn away 

 by ordinary atmospheric agents. Some of these have 

 such forms as in the following diagram, fig. 65, and I 



