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Witherslack, Cartmel, Dalton and Millum, from whence for some
distance its place is occupied by the sea, and in the
neighbourhood of Gosforth and Calder Bridge, a red sandstone
intervenes, so that the limestone is either wanting or buried
under more recent formations. It dips from the mountains on every
side, but with different degrees of inclination; the declivity
being generally least on the southern side. In the neighbourhood
of Witherslack it forms lofty isolated ridges, while the
subjacent slaty rock appears in the lower ground: and it may be
seen upon the surface as far as Warton and Farleton Crags, and
even as far as Kellet, before it is covered by the sandstone of
the coal measures. A remarkable exception, however, occurs in
Holker Park, where the mountain rock is succeeded by limestone,
and that by sandstone and shale, resembling that which
accompanies coal - all within a very short distance. On the north
and west of the mountains, the inclination of the newer rocks
appears to be greater and the strata thinner; so that the
clay-slate of the first division is succeeded by limestone,
sandstone and coal, all in the distance of two or three miles.
The principal mineral production of this limestone, is iron ore,
which is raised in great quantities near Dalton, and also near
Egremont.
On external parts of this circle various sandstones and coal
succeed each other. At Bolton in Cumberland, the stratification
appears to be mantle-shaped round the hill at Catlands, so that
the lime-
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