Notices respecting New Books. 



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Feet. 



Yarm, Boroughbridge, and 

 Ferrybridge. 



From Brotherton to Don- 

 caster. 



Fairburn, Knottingley. 



Catterick, Knaresborough, 

 Doncaster, &c. 



Leeds, Barnsley, Sheffield. 

 Swaledale, Yoredale, and 

 Wharfdale. 



Ingleton, Sedburgh. 



Over these strata is spread the detritus of the deluge, and in parti- 

 cular places this is covered by more recent accumulations of peat, 

 clay, &c. 



" The eastern part of Yorkshire may be topographically considered 

 in five divisions. Three of these are conspicuous from their eleva- 

 tion -, viz. the open round-fronted wolds of chalk in the south, the 

 flat-topped ranges of oolite in the middle, and the more mountainous 

 groups of shale, sandstone, limestone, and coal, which form the north- 

 ern moorlands ; two are wide, level tracts : viz. the vale of Pickering, 

 which separates the chalk wolds from the oolitic hills, and Holder- 

 ness, which is a broad tract of alluvial marshland, undulated by hills 

 of diluvial clay and gravel. 



" These five divisions of the surface reach the coast in succession, 

 and mark it with very characteristic features. The shore of Holder- 

 ness is, like the interior, low and undulated ; the wolds terminate in 

 long, lofty, and connected cliffs $ a depression on the coast marks 

 the line of the vale of Pickering - } flat-topped heights characterize the 

 oolitic formation on the shore, as well as in the interior j and the 

 highest precipices on the coast belong to the same series of rocks as 

 the loftiest of the inland hills." 



" The Moorland District. 



" This district is remarkable for presenting, along its whole outline, 

 a range of bold and steep escarpments. Its overhanging cliffs, which 

 so strikingly characterize the coast between Scarborough and Redcar, 

 are among the loftiest in Britain ; and where it turns inland from 

 Huntclifl', by Rosebury Topping, Burton Head, Dromanby Bank, and 

 Osmotherly moors, it maintains the same high and precipitous aspect, 

 and looks over the plain of Cleveland and Mowbray, as the ranges 

 of Cleeve and Broadway overlook the vales of Gloucestershire. This 

 similarity of appearance is owing to analogy of geological structure. 

 The wide vales of Gloucestershire are, like the vale of Cleveland, 

 based on red marl and lias shale ; and the oolitic rocks of Cleeve and 

 Broadway are represented, though with great variations, by the rocks 

 of the corresponding escarpments in Yorkshire." 



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