DEPOSITED IN WATER. Lt * 
height, and, after it is thrown down by a fault, pebbly grits appear 
in the river again. Higher, the Nid is found flowing in the same 
black cherty limestones and plates as those which cover the great 
limestone at Lofthouse, about ten feet of limestone resting on twenty 
feet of plate. Above on each side, toward Middlesmoor and toward 
Little Whernside, are enormously thick shales, (plates), surmounted 
by flagstones and shale, with coal, and a coarse grit rock above. Still 
higher are more shales and grits for a great height. In Ramsgill, below 
Lofthouse, the lower limestone is covered by alternating plates, cherts, 
and limestones, above five fathoms, and on these lies a grit rock, eight 
fathoms thick, (with coal). 
We have, therefore, in general terms : 
Above the bearing grit ••• Plates, grits, and coal. 
Bearing grit and coal 4® ^' ee *' anc ^ rnorc ‘ 
Black limestone group 
Plate 
Black compact limestone 
Pamp bed (platy) 
Plate 
Blue limestone 
.Plate ••* ••• 
Ft. In. 
5 0 
1 G 
1 2 
6 0 
4 0 
{ Coral bed (Cyathophyllum) ... ... 2 0 
Shale and crinoidea ... ... ••• ® 
Gray limestone ... ••• 
Passing now to the left bank of Wharfedale, we find extremely 
satisfactory sections under Great Whernside, so situated with reference 
one to another, as to permit us to see perfectly the nature of the 
change from the southern to the northern type of et s. n a sma 
glen descending by a mine from Great Whernside, the passage from 
the limestone to the superior gritstones is thus observed 
