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Robshaw Point, the same soft red sandstone is seen on the 
beach covered by the tide, and appears to be a continuation 
of that rock seen to the south, but much better exposed. 
With these exceptions no further evidence has yet been 
obtained of any permian beds until we reach Rougham 
Point. 
The triassic beds in South Lancashire, as seen near Liver- 
pool, according to Mr. Hull, are as follows* : — 
Formation. 
New Red 
Sandstone. 
Division. 
Keupe 
J 
Bunter. 
Subdivision. 
1. Red marl, with beds of upper keuper 
sandstone. 
2. Lower keuper sandstone or waterstone, 
with a base of breccia or conglomerate. 
1. Upper red and mottled sandstone. 
2. Pebble beds. 
3. Lower red and mottled sandstone. 
Next, as seen near Manchester, where the same author 
classes the bunter as composed of 
1. Upper red and mottled sandstone. 
2. Pebble beds. 
It will be seen from the above divisions that the lower 
soft red and mottled sandstone of Liverpool is left out at 
Manchester altogether, the lowest member of the trias there 
being the pebble bed. There certainly is the Vauxhall sand- 
stone, which would pass very well for the lower soft red ; 
but the Newtown fossils found above it, clearly cut off that 
rock from the trias, and establish it with the permian beyond 
all question. 
The author had not made many divisions of the bunter 
portions of the trias. No doubt they are useful in different 
places, and have sometimes to be varied with the districts to 
which they are applied. In the north, about Carlisle, up to 
this time, only one bed of soft red sandstone without pebbles 
has come under his notice. But at Sutton, as previously 
alluded to, there is a soft red sandstone without pebbles 
* Manchester Geological Society’s Transactions, Yol. II. p. 23. 
