THE COUNCIL. 



relate to Yorkshire, are its principal objects ; and of these 

 objects, in whatever degree the Institution may be enlarged, 

 it ought by no means ever to lose sight. Other collections 

 within these walls will have their use for the instruction of 

 the student; but as far as the progress of learning or 

 science is concerned, intelligence of the district to which 

 we belong, is our proper study and our most useful 

 pursuit. 



Reverting, then, again to the subject of antiquities, the 

 Council have to remark, that among the communications 

 made to the Society during the last year, there was a paper "^ 

 on the discovery of a Roman road, and works connected with 

 it, on the Wolds, which had a peculiar interest in this point 

 of view ; and it has been suggested that a great benefit might 

 be conferred on some future topographer of the county, if 

 similar observations were made by other members of the 

 Society, and communicated, with proper measurements and 

 plans, to be deposited in the archives of the Museum. 

 " These works, " the Curator has justly remarked, " are 

 objects of importance to the reader of history, as well as to 

 the antiquary. Many such works have disappeared ; and 

 many are continually disappearing. The plough that 

 discloses the rust-eaten javelin, and the empty helmet, and 

 the bones of the horse and his rider, levels the ramparts, 

 obliterates the causey, and effaces all the labors of the 

 victorious legions of Rome. To trace the four great roads 

 by which Britain was traversed during its subjection to that 

 power, has long baffled the exertions of the most diligent and 



By the Rev. Mr. Rankin. 



