386 GILLIGAX : EFFECTS OF STORM ON BARDEX FELL. 
part of the fell. The old foundations of the wall could be seen 
six feet below the present level of the ground, and stratified 
gravel, alternating with beds of peaty mud and angular pieces 
of grit, were exposed where the wall had been washed away 
(Plate LV., Fig. 2). This wall had fortunately determined the 
course of one of the tributary streams along the top of Thomp- 
son's Folly Plantation, or the farm which lies directly below 
might have been swept away. In the channel cut by this 
tributary stream evidence of the forces bringing about the 
folding and faulting of the whole district could be seen in the 
beds forming an unsymmetrical anticline, which had passed 
over into a reversed fault on the other side of the channel. 
Striking north-west across the fell two old channels were 
found, now quite dry and unaffected by the storm, which were 
probably the drainage channels of sonie previous storm, and 
helping to confirm the observations made regarding the stratified 
deposits nea,r the wall. Another channel only fifty yards further 
on was one of the main drainage channels of the recent storm. 
The amount of material cut out of its bed was enormous, and 
has been spread out in a fan some distance below. In nearly 
all cases the cutting in the smaller channels branching from 
the larger ones commenced quite suddenly, due no doubt to 
the cutting back of the waterfalls formed by the rax)id deepening 
of the main channels, each of the waterfalls having the usual 
boulder bar. A portion of one of these new channels is shown 
in Plate LVI., Fig. 1. 
An old cart-road leading up to a quarry on the fell side 
had during the first part of the storm formed an easy escape 
for the water, but as the volume increased the water could not 
follow the windings of the road, and burst through the sides 
at the sharp turns, just as rivers cut a F,horter channel and leave 
the " ox-bow " channels on their sides as records of their former 
courses. 
To the north of this road a fault which runs south-west to 
north-east, and throvvs the Millstone Grit against the Pendlesides, 
has been well exposed, and some interesting points which need 
more careful study have been disclosed along this fault fine. 
It seemed at first nothing more tlian a normal fault, but an 
