110 The Rev. W. Buckland on a Group of Rocks 



seems to run east and west. It is found also two fields below in a 

 westerly direction.* 



About a mile south of Dufton pike, in the direction of Keisley, 

 in a streamlet that joins the Keisley Beck, and runs down to the 

 village of Dufton, in a field or farm called Hindrigs are other traces 

 of granite exactly like that of the hills on the south-west of Shap, 

 containing large flesh coloured crystals of felspar ; it appears to be 

 in its natural position, and (like the neighbouring granite of Banky 



Close under Dufton pike) either a dyke or the projecting back of a 

 substratum of this substance. 



The part I saw uncovered was about 10 feet square, and had no 

 appearance of being a rolled block. The watercourse,. 1 yards off, 

 passed over a small portion of the same granite in a little cascade ; 

 but here also it was so covered with grass that absolute demonstra- 

 tion could not be obtained. I am inclined however to think, that 

 this granite is the point of a subjacent rock, and a new locality of 

 that variety which is so different from all other English granites, 

 and so strongly characterised at Shap Fell. 



In the field adjoining the Hindrigs granite immediately above 

 and on both sides of the water course were large blocks composed 

 entirely of dark mica, which lay half buried in the soil, and appeared 



* This granite much resembles that of a dyke which at a place called Demrtijng or lied 

 Crag at the highest point of the road about half way between Snap and Kendal, and near 

 the mass of the granite of Shap and Birbeck Fells, is clean extracted from a long narrow 

 quarry by the road side, so as to prove decidedly that it is a dyke about 'JO feet in breadth, 

 and lying between two side walls of course slate. 



We were told that this d)ke runs off nearly north and south, a mile or two south-south- 

 east, and nearly a mile north-north-west of the spot where we saw it by the road side. 



Its soulh-south-east portion keeps nearly along the crest of the hills of grauwacke and 

 grauwacke slate that run south-cast from Birbeck Fells to Tebay on the Luue near Orton, 

 in their course towards Sedburtrh and Injrlctoa. 



