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points, a curving of the strike would produce these positions without 

 a fault. But the flexure would have to be rather sharp, and, as has 

 been noticed, the beds at Sandhills Lodge are disturbed. A fault 

 therefore probably runs from Markfield Tollgate by Sandhills Lodge, 

 but whither further there is nothing to show. Its throw would be 

 about 1500 feet. Nor is there any sufficient indication of the 

 position of the disturbances due to the syenite of HammerclifF. 

 The beds of Chitterman Hill lie about 1000 feet above the positions 

 which would be occupied by those of Timberwood Hill, if they con- 

 tinued unaltered in direction ; but that the direction would alter 

 in the space of nearly three miles is little less than certain. It 

 should be noticed that this dislocation is in the opposite direction 

 to the preceding one. 



The appearance of Bardon Hill, at right angles to all the other 

 ridges, naturally suggests some faulting. Its structure, as described 

 in Part I., shows that it is disconnected from all the rocks in the 

 Markfield direction. There must be a fault down the valley 

 between it and the Rice rocks. Yery probably also, as Professor 

 Hull suggests, another fault may pass along its north-western side 

 somewhere to the north of Robin Butts. It is difficult to avoid 

 supposing a third between it and the Green-Hill ridge, since the 

 strikes are so different in the two localities, and since the great 

 boundary fault which heads straight in this direction can scarcely 

 have died out abruptly. Thus Bardon seems insulated by faults. 

 The description of the last-named dislocation, which runs south-east 

 through Whitwick, throwing down the Coal-measures against the 

 Forest rocks, will be found in the Survey Memoir. Professor Hull 

 there calculates, as we mentioned above, that the downthrow at 

 Whitwick is about 2200 feet. 



It was stated in Part I. (p. 775) that we had not been able to ex- 

 plain satisfactorily the relations of the Peldar-Tor rocks to those im- 

 mediately S.E. of them. It seems almost certain that a fault forms 

 the S.E. boundary of Peldar Tor, separating its beds from those of 

 Tin Meadow and the Eorest-Rock-Inn quarry. This hypothesis, 

 however, still leaves some difficulties. 



The S. dip a quarter of a mile E. of the monastery, and that to 

 the S.E. on Kite Hill outside the garden, show the existence of 

 disturbances which we cannot at present trace out. The rocks 

 of Gun Hill appear to rise from below those of Kite Hill ; but a re- 

 examination of the beds shows that both the matrix and the included 

 fragments resemble those of the Cadman series. We showed in 

 Part I. that they were bounded by faults. This correlation would 

 give them a downthrow of about 1200 feet. 



A group of rocks whose position is probably due to faults is that 

 E. of the grounds of Gracedieu Hall, at Warren Hill. They seem 

 to come up from under the Cadman beds, and to overlie those of 

 High Sharpley ; but do not resemble those on Ratchet Hill, where 

 the passage from one series to the other can be seen. The dips, 

 though very obscure, can be made out at several points ; they are 

 always W.S.W. and gentle, except at one place, where there is a 



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