TRIASSIC STRATA OF CUMBERLAND AND DUMFRIES. 359 



faths. ft. in. 



Brought forward 122 5 i c^ 



Blue clay and sandy shale i 1 ^\ 



White and blue sandstone 1 i n^ 



Black-brown clay and white sandstone ... i 3 3i 



Blue and white shale and sandstone 2 5 10^ 



Shale in thin layers, mixed with light blue 



clay 241 



White, red, and yellow coarse sandstone... 144! 



Light blue clay 020 



Brown clay o 2 o^ 



Variegated clays ofwhite and brown colours 043 



Brown sandstone <5 5 oi 



Brown and peuce-coloured sandstone o 4 ^\ 



Brown and blue sandy shale and hard 



brown sandstone i 4 g 



Brown limy sandstone o 2 2^ 



Sandy clays o 4 10^ 



Brown sandstone, clays, and thin ribs of 



dark blue stone, containing iron and lime o 5 \\ 



Fathoms 141 2 6f* 



Mr. Matthias Dunn, Government Mine-Inspector, in a 

 paper on tlie coal-fields of Cumberland, and on the proba- 

 bility of coal being found under the New Red Sandstone 

 which surrounds Carlisle, printed in vol. viii. of the ^ Trans- 

 actions of the North of England Institute of Mining En- 

 gineers ^ (p. 141), says, ^^ In the years 1857-58 a boring was 

 made adjoining the River Liddel, in the lands of Sir James 

 Graham, Bart., under the management of Mr. Gard, from 

 Cornwall, by means of his patent instrument, worked by a 

 steam-engine, the result of which was unsatisfactory in many 

 respects, both as to the depth bored and the imperfect 

 manner of accounting for the strata passed through. There 

 is also reason to believe that he was in very troubled 

 ground. A copy is hereto annexed of the boring, which 

 was given up at the depth of 56 fathoms, the contractor 

 being quite dispirited. 



* Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, 

 vol. xi. p. 79. 



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