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The " Taurus Range," Settle. 
There is a mass of limestone on the down-throw side of 
the great faults to which this portion of the Main Limestone 
of Ingleborough bears a very strong resemblance, both in litho- 
logical character and fossil contents, and could we certainly 
establish the identity of the two horizons it would be of immense 
value in the investigation of the age and amount of the great 
faults and of the character and southward extension of the 
various sub-divisions of the Carboniferous rocks previous to 
the occurrence of those faults. 
A mile and a half east-south-east of Settle is a beautiful 
wooded gorge with a waterfall, known as Scaleber Force. On 
the north of the road north of this there is a ridge of limestone 
in which quarries have been opened to obtain stone for walling. 
This limestone is highly fossiliferous, and, fortunately, early 
attracted the attention of Mr. Burrow, a master in the school 
at Settle, who made a large collection from it, which is 
now in the Sedgwick Museum. His specimens are labelled 
" Carboniferous Limestone, Settle," but the exact locality is 
not indicated, so that, although the lithological character 
of the rock has generally enabled us to separate the fossils of the 
Taurus Range from those found elsewhere in that neigh- 
bourhood, there is an unfortunate element of doubt hanging 
over them. I have, however, a large number collected from 
this locality by my own excursion parties from Cambridge. 
On the north of this ridge, jocularly known as the Taurus Range 
from an episode that occurred on it, there is a hollow broken 
bit of ground along which there is probably a considerable 
fault. Beyond this again there is a limestone exposed which 
differs altogether in appearance and fossil contents from that 
on the Taurus Range. The more northerly ridge consists of 
an earthy and occasionally somewhat carbonaceous rock, with 
Producta semireticulata, Orthis {Schizophoria) resupinata, and a 
great abundance of Chonetes papillonacea, reminding us of the 
beds above the Norber Scars, whereas the limestone of the 
Taurus Range is highly crystalline, and its crystalline appear- 
ance exaggerated by the multitude of broken encrinite stems, 
of which in places it is almost entirely made up. 
