PERMIAN BEDS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. 41 



ft. in. 



Brought forward -IT^iS? 8 



Eed rock 12 10 



Eed rock, very hard 5 10 



Dark red, very hard 14 o 



Dark red 26 3 



Raddle and red and white sandstone 7 2 



Grrey sandstone 13 3 



Very red 5 3 



Red sandstone and raddle 7 3 



Red sandstone and raddle, and clay-band 8 6 



Red sandstone and raddle, chiefly 6 o 



Red sandstone and raddle, just entering raddle ... 4 6 



Soft raddle and red sandstone, hard 14 6 



Very hard, hardest found ... 18 9 



Red sandstone 11 i 



Stone and raddle mixed 7 n 



Red and white sandstone 9 9 



Much like a gravel-bed, as fall of pebbles as pos- 

 sible 8 6 



Red and grey sandstone ii 4 



Red sandstone 29 6 



459 10 



The bore was made for the purpose of procuring a supply 

 of water for the works. Plenty of water was met with_, 

 but it was so salt that it could not be used for dyeing-pur- 

 poses^ and so the boring was discontinued. This is the 

 only instance that has come to my knowledge of salt water 

 having been found in the trias beds near Manchester. 

 The result of the borings at Messrs. Joule^ Rothwell, 

 and Worrali^s is given to show that in the line from New 

 Bailey Bridge to Ordsal there is no evidence of the great 

 Pendleton faulty although on continuing it south it ought 

 to pass within that distance. 



Since the date of my last paper, two new localities have 

 been noticed where permian strata occur in West Lanca- 

 shire. Mr. E. Hull, of the Geological Survey, first in- 

 formed me of them. He has noticed them in the sheet 

 which explains the geology of that district. My own ob- 



