TRIASSIC STRATA OF CUMBERLAND AND DUMFRIES. 357 



ft. in. 



Eed shales 5 o 



Soft red sandstone 4 o 



Breccia i 3 



Purple shales i 6 



Green calcareous band 2 6 



Eed and variegated soft sandstone 4 o 



Eed shales, containing bands of gritstone, about 40 o 



At the junction of the two lines of railway another small 

 anticlinal axis is seen^ dipping to the N.W. and S.E., and 

 extending over lo yards. Up to this point the strata 

 appear to be Permian. Continuing the section along the 

 line, a series of red and variegated shales_, containing thin 

 bands of gritstone,, occur for a considerable distance, until 

 we come to a brown sandstone marked with ripples, and 

 having its lower portion mottled with red, similar to that at 

 Knotty Holm, described in the last section. In the sand- 

 stone no fossils were met with; but the shales afforded 

 Stiffmaria-Tootlet^ at several points in the railway- cutting 

 between the Tool-house and Canobie Junction. In the 

 flat piece of land near Penton, below the railway, at a place 

 called Crooked Holm, a bore was made by the late Sir 

 James Graham, Bart., some years since. By the kindness 

 of Mr. Gibsone, some specimens of the limestone found in 

 the bore were forwarded to me. All its characters re- 

 minded me of the Spirorbis limestone found at Canobie, 

 and described in the last section ; but no fossil organic re- 

 mains were found in the specimens submitted to me. The 

 following is a section of the 



Inch Bore. 



fath. ft. in. 



Sand and gravel i 2 o 



Brown-red sandstone 2 2 5 



Grey sandstone, in thin layers 6 3 11 



Brown clay i 2 o 



Sandstone 3 i 9 



Carryforward 15 o i 



