1. Introduction; 2. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: A. The Skiddaw slates; 3. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: B. The Borrowdale series; 4. Intrusive igneous rocks connected with the Borrowdale series; 5. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: C. The Coniston limestone; 6. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: D. The Stockdale shales; 7. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: E. The lower Coniston flags = Brathay flags; 8. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: F. The upper Coniston flags, Coniston grits and Bannisdale slates; 9. Lower Palaeozoic rocks: G. The Kirkby Moor flags; 10. Discussion of the conditions under which the rocks of lower Palaeozoic age were formed in Lakeland; 11. The changes at the end of lower Palaeozoic times; 12. The changes at the end of lower Palaeozoic times (continued); 13. The carboniferous rocks; 14. Post-carboniferous changes; 15. Events in the district between the time of formation of the dome and the glacial period; 16. The glacial period: the ice-sheet; 17. The glacial period: ice-erosion; 18. The glacial period: accumulation; 19. The glacial period: glacial overflow valleys. Oscillations of the ice; 20. Post-glacial changes; Index.