122 MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN AND 



Sigillaria and other coal-plants are found in it. The dip 

 is to the E.S.E._, at an angle of 12°. 



In a quarry in an adjoining field to the Outer Park 

 Quarry^ the stone^ evidently a millstone, is of a reddish 

 colour J and dips to the south at 14°. 



These millstones appear to run under the country to the 

 Abbey Light, at the mouth of the Lune, and then across 

 that river to Robshaw Point^ and on to Heysham ; but on 

 their west side they do not, to my knowledge, afford any 

 sections showing their relation with Permian or Triassic 

 rocks, except at Cockersand Abbey and Eobshaw Point. 



A little to the south of Cockersand Abbey, near to the 

 mouth of the Lune, below high-water mark, is seen a soft 

 sandstone of a dark red, variegated by patches of a yellowish- 

 brown colour, very false bedded, and containing no pebbles. 

 There it dips to the south at an angle of 6°. 



On the beach just below the Abbey the dip was due 

 west at 15°, and nearer the Abbey still it dipped N.W. at 

 15°. This variety of dip may arise from the extraordinary 

 false bedding, making it extremely difficult to get the true 

 dip of the rock. I took it to be a soft Permian sandstone, 

 similar to that formerly described by me under the con- 

 glomerate at E-ougham Point near Humfray Head ; but 

 although I saw numerous large pieces of the latter rock 

 lying on the beach below the Abbey, I found none in situ. 

 I was informed that the Abbey Light-house was built 

 on a fine-grained, light-coloured sandstone, something like 

 the Ashton stone ; but I did not see it myself. This ap- 

 pears probable, as the Permian sandstone ranges across the 

 mouth of the Lune, and makes its appearance on the beach 

 below high- water mark, on the north side of the mouth of 

 that river, at Robshaw Point, the cliff being of millstone- 

 grit. 



* This is the name of tlie place, given to me by a man living near it. 



