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[lime]stone is overlaid by the coal measures nearly on all sides.
Quantities of coal are raised in the western part of that parish,
and also to the eastward at Caldbeck and Warnel Fell: and a thin
seam of coal has been found interstratified with the limestone at
Hesket Newmarket; but it is easily understood, that it would be
in vain to search for coal within this limestone circle;
consequently it cannot be found in the neighbourhood of the
lakes. Coal is raised at Greysouthen, Gilcrux, and Plumbland; and
there are extensive fields of coal beneath the town of
Whitehaven, at Workington, and on the south side of the river
Ellen at Maryport. From Maryport towards Carlisle, and thence to
Penrith, is a large tract of red sandstone of unknown depth. To
the eastward, the plain of the Eden is bounded by a long range of
mountains, called by some the British Apennines, or the Backbone
of England. These mountains are stratified, but do not produce
coal; except at the northern end towards Brampton. South-east,
coal is found on Stainmoor; and more southward, the first
appearance of coal is at Hutton Roof, between Burton and Kirkby
Lonsdale; and near Ingleton, there is an extraordinary assemblage
of slate, lime, and coal.
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