ranging E.S.E. between the Rivers Lune and Wharfe. 9 



At this place some particular parts of the slate much resemble that of Horton, 

 hereafter to be noticed, but exhibit the unusual fact of the laminge of "bate," 

 varying their direction in contiguous tables of slate. 



In one table the "bate" and cleavage meet at angles of 64° and 1 16°, but 

 in the contiguous table at 25° and 155°. 



This appearance is seldom to be distinctly observed except on stones which 

 by long exposure to the weather have had their fissures opened. 



After crossing slate rocks for about half a mile further, the river divides 

 beds of red sandstone without any pebbles ; beyond which so much gravel, 

 derived from the neighbouring hills, fills the valley, as to conceal the sub- 

 jacent strata for half a mile, when a grit rock appears full of pebbles. One 

 hundred yards lower is the place where an unsuccessful trial for coal was made 

 by boring. The principal rock discovered in this attempt was a blue argil- 

 laceous stone, provincially called "Soapstone," and thought to be similar to a 

 stone of the same name in the Coal-field at Black Burton. Lower down and 

 till the stream joins the Lune, its banks are composed of pebbles. 



The smaller streams which intervene between Leek Beck and Kingsdale 

 arise from the northern edge of limestone, and traverse in their southward 

 course, before arriving at the Settle road, a tract which may probably be 

 formed on slate rocks ; but the abundance of gravel prevents the exposure of 

 these as well as the southern range of limestone, of which no trace appears 

 before arriving at Kingsdale. But at West House, on the line of the road, a 

 curious rock with a southward dip is occasionally exposed in digging the 

 foundations of houses, which resembles in composition the brecciated beds 

 alternating with new red sandstone at Kirby Stephen and Stenkrith Bridge. 



This stone is a fine-grained light-coloured red sand, containing a variety of 

 imbedded fragments, more or less rounded, apparently, according to the degree 

 of their hardness. Limestone fragments of gray and red colour are the most 

 numerous, the largest and the most angular: ironstone in small pieces and in 

 different states of decomposition is plentiful, and a few pebbles (granular 

 slate?) of more sandy substance make up the mass, in whose interstices cal- 

 careous spar ramifies as in the old red conglomerate of Kirby Lonsdale. No 

 fossils have been found in it except what the included limestone fragments 

 contain. It is locally called "red limestone," and is occasionally used in build- 

 ing, for which its large thin beds are well adapted. It is unknown, except 

 about West House, where it occupies a considerable surface of red soil. 



Kingsdale. (See Section A, Plate I.) 

 Has its origin in the limestone and shale series between the ranges of Gra- 



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