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taining two well-marked limestones, viz., those of Eastby and of 
Embsay. Below the shales comes the thick limestone (800 feet seen) 
of Haw Bank. It is a dark thin-bedded limestone, precisely similar 
in character to the Thornton limestone, to which it is probably 
equivalent. It is extensively quarried for road metal in the Haw 
Bank near Skipton. The strike of the beds south of the Aire is 
generally N.E. and S.W., the dip increasing westward ; but about 
the latitude of Skipton the beds bend round so as to strike nearly 
east and west, with a dip of 20° to the south on Skipton Moor. 
An anticlinal ranges along Skibeden from Skipton to Bolton Abbey, 
with a steady dip to the north, and many a fold on the south. Thus 
the mountain limestone of Haw Bank has been brought up between 
two ranges of millstone grit hills, viz., Skipton Moor on the south 
and Embsay Moor on the north. The beds are much faulted and 
contorted, particularly along the south side of Skibeden. Good 
instances of contortion are to be seen at Draughton and Wheelam 
Rock Quarries, and at the Hambleton Rock Quarry ; and a fine 
section of contorted beds is to be seen in Haltongill. 
The Kinderscout grit of Skipton and Draughton Moors striking 
east descends to the River Wharf, north of Addingham. Its high 
southerly dip carries it up the slope of Langbar Moor, its base 
running just below Beamsley Beacon. It then, under the influence 
of a branch of the Skipton anticlinal, plunges down northward to the 
Kex Beck, where the beds bend up again and rise northward to 
Hazlewood Moor and Bolton Park. Here, on the strike of the 
Skipton anticlinal, the beds bend over northward, and recross the 
Wharfe below Laund House. South of this, as far as Bolton Abbey, 
limestones and shales are seen along the river. 
The Pendle grits run along the slope of Skipton Moor to Fair- 
field Hall ; and east of the Wharfe are found about Beamsley and 
Storriths. They have not been everywhere identified on the north 
side of Skibeden. The general run of the beds on this side is, how- 
ever, tolerably plain. A set of bold crags marks the escarpment of 
this Kinderscout grit along Halton and Embsay Moors, Rylstone, 
Burnsall, and Thorpe Fells. Beneath the western escarpment of the 
Kinderscout grit, the Pendle grit forms at intervals promontories on 
