seems to run Cast and west. It is found also two fields below in a westerly direction. [1]
About a mile south of Dufton pike, in the direction of Keisley, in a streamlet that joins the Keisley Beck, and runs down to the village of Dufton, in a field or farm called Hindrigs are other traces of granite exactly like that of the hills on the south-west of Shap, containing large flesh coloured crystals of felspar; it appears to be in its natural position, and (like the neighbouring granite of Banky Close under Dufton pike) either a dyke or the projecting back of a substratum of this substance.
The part I saw uncovered was about 10 feet square, and had no appearance of being a rolled block. The watercourse, 10 yards off, passed over a small portion of the same granite in a little cascade; but here also it was so covered with grass that absolute demonstration could not be obtained. I am inclined however to think, that this granite is the point of a subjacent rock, and a new locality of that variety which is so different from all other English granites, and so strongly characterised at Shap Fell.
In the field adjoining the Hindrigs granite immediately above and on both sides of the water course were large blocks composed entirely of dark mica, which lay half buried in the soil, and appeared
- ↑ This granite much resembles that of a dyke which at a place called Demming or Red Crag at the highest point of the road about half way between Shap and Kendal, and near the mass of the granite of Shap and Burbeck Fells, is clean extracted from a long narrow
quarry by the road side, so as to prove decidedly that it is a dyke about 30 feet in breadth, and lying between two side walls of course slate.
We were told that this dyke runs off nearly north and south, a mile or two south-south-east, and nearly a mile north-north-west of the spot where we saw it by the road side.
Its south-south-east portion keeps nearly along the crest of the hills of grauwacke and grauwacke slate that run south-east from Birbeck Fells to Tebay on the Lune near Orton, in their course towards Sedburgh and Ingleton.
