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swept away by the Calder and other streams. But at Clitheroe 
the whole 8,600 feet had disappeared, together with about 
10,000 feet of the Yoredale Shale and Millstone Grit. Thus 
from over the Clitheroe area as much matter had been removed 
by denudation as would make a mountain range equal in 
magnitude to the Mont Blanc range. 
The history of Pendle Hill is closely connected with the 
history of the Kibble Valley, and the stupendous changes 
of their evolution took place at a period immensely remote. 
The contours of the Pendle Range and the main features of 
our local landscapes became fixed inTpre-Permian times, 
ages and ages before the material of^the^Andes and Himalayas 
were deposited in the depths of the sea. 
