Baden Powell — Igneous Rocks of Charnwood Forest, 119 



But there are several localities where the New Red has clearly 

 undergone some disturbance since its deposition. In the cases which 

 I have observed, the inclination of the strata of the New Red, marked 

 by distinct bands, does not amount to more than 12° or 15° measured 

 on the surface of the section exposed. But the real dip may, of course, 

 amount to any quantity greater than this. Sketches of a few cases 

 are annexed. These are all instances of deposition over slate. Some 

 cases where the New Red is deposited over igneous rocks have been 

 before noticed. 



Fig. 3. Swithland Old Pit, reopened in 1859. 



Fig. 4. Mr. Ellis's Pit, inner part, facing South. 



Fig. 5, Mr. Ellis's Pit, near the entrance. South-west side. 

 [a. o. New Eed Sandstone, h. h. Slate, e. Cave, The letters a and 6 have the same reference 



in Figs. 3, 4, and 5.]^ 



Other cases are those, for example, at Groby, mentioned by Mr. 

 Jukes, and where I have seen a good instance of the horizontal de- 

 position of the New Red, immediately over the syenite. Again, at 

 New Cliff the New Red is undisturbed by the greenstone. The 

 syenite hills of Buddon Wood are densely covered with trees, even 

 at their summits, growing apparently out of no inconsiderable thick- 

 ness of the New Red marl. This is more remarkably the case in the 

 abrupt knoll, or ridge, which forms the top of Kinlesley-hill, the 

 upper end of which is cut away by a quarry, and the whole bears 

 large trees, the thickness of soil being exposed by the face of the 

 quarry, though no distinct marks of stratification enable us to judge 

 of its conformability. At the lower end of the knoll (which slopes 

 towards Swithland) there is a small quarry, where the superposition 

 of the New Red is still more apparent. 



Connexio7i of Igneous Rocks. — The syenite or granite of Broadgate 

 and Groby has been ejected over a considerable space, mostly with- 

 out being forced up to any elevation above the surrounding region ; 

 but at Markfield, and in a less degree at Cliff-hill, it has risen in 

 higher and isolated hills ; while, on the same side of this district, 

 standing apart to the westward, the greenstone of Bardon-hill attains 



