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



to be a continuation of the same sandstone before described 

 at Cockersand Abbey^ and most probably ranges across 

 Morecambe Bay to Rougliam Point, near Humfray Head- 

 In all its characters it exactly resembles the soft red Per- 

 mian sandstone of tliat place, and it rests unconformably 

 on millstone-gritj like the same rock there does on mountain 

 limestone. Although the overlying Permian conglomerate, 

 as seen at E-ougham Point, is not met with, as previously 

 stated, in situ, it lies about as boulders in considerable 

 quantities on the shores north and south of the mouth of 

 the Lune, both at Robshaw Point and Cockersand Abbey. 



Concluding Remarks. 



The sections of Kougham Point, Robshaw Point, Cocker- 

 sand Abbey, and Roach Bridge all show a soft variegated 

 red and yellow sandstone, of Permian age, resting uncon- 

 formably on Carboniferous rocks, in a similar manner to 

 what is seen at Grimshaw Delph, Rainford, Croxteth 

 Park, and on the Manchester and Liverpool Railway at 

 Whiston, and in all probability will be proved to be of the 

 same age. 



The country, owing to the thick covering of drift, is 

 very difficult to examine ; but it is to be hoped that all 

 the facts ascertained by boring for coal, and in other sub- 

 terranean searches, will be recorded and published, so as 

 to give us some further materials to reason on. 



The Bannister Hall and Roach Bridge section, if the 

 lower beds are proved to be of Permian age by the occur- 

 rence of red shales or marls in the covered-up beds (which 

 I think most probably may be the case), will show us a 

 thin bed of calcareous conglomerate, at the base a soft red 

 sandstone, instead of at the top of that rock, as seen at 

 Cheetham Weir Hole, near Manchester. This is not unlike 

 a conglomerate bed previously described by me in my last 

 memoir, as occurring in a similar position on the banks of 



