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the road about half-way down Wahia Scar, just before entering 

 the first large enclosure. The slate-works in the stupendous 

 precipice called Honister Crag, also in the green slate-rock, are 

 remarkable for their altitude above the pass leading from Borrow- 

 dale to Buttermere, and for the manner of bringing the slate 

 down upon sledges, which was also practised at Coniston. 



It is scarcely requisite to notice the flags, lime, marble, gypsum, 

 millstones, grindstones, &c., of the country, as these, though 

 eminently useful, are of little interest whether to the philosophic, 

 the poetic, or the practical tourist Several metallic ores are 

 scattered through the hiUs, though not in quantity sufficient 

 to render them of commercial importance, and amongst these may 

 be mentioned zinc, antimony, cobalt, aluminum, barium, and gold ; 

 whilst of the precious stones the garnet, agate, and jasper are 

 found in the Borrowdale and Wasdale fells, the two latter 

 pretty abundantly on the beach at St Bees and Fleswick. 



In conclusion it may be maintained that, as no district of similar 

 extent displays such variety of natural beauty in its external 

 aspect, so does no district present, within equally limited bounds, 

 such diversity of geological formation and arrangement, or a like 

 variety of mineral productions, as does the Lake country of 

 England. 



