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of Battersbie, was buried in 1675. Then in 1677, Robert 

 Ward (not improbably the same) married Mary Marwood. In 

 1680, Robert Ward de Battersbie, was buried. In 1684, Mary 

 Ward, widow, married Geo. Cooper. In 1699, Mary, wife of 

 Geo. Cooper, died at Battersby. 



Lecture at Easby. — On Wednesday evening, March 5th, at 

 the conclusion of the Lenten Service in the Church, the congre- 

 gation adjourned to the carriage-house of the Hall, where they 

 were joined by several friends, and a lecture illustrated by lime 

 light views was given by the Rev. J. Hawell. Referring to the 

 service they had just left the lecturer said there was no incon- 

 gruity between the successive addresses. The great green book 

 of Nature was but a companion volume of the old brown Book 

 which they had just closed, The Bible stated that God made 

 the world " in the beginning." It neither told us when that 

 beginning was, nor hmv the world was made. These things it 

 remained for the geologist to ascertain by investigation. Glanc- 

 ing at the birth of the moon during the earth's liquid youth, and 

 pointing out the reasons for its airless condition and rugged face, 

 he expressed the opinion that it was probably not very long after 

 the moon's birth that the earth began to get its solid crust, and 

 the hills and valleys, and the solid material out of which all hills 

 and valleys should subsequently be formed, began to be. On- 

 wards and downwards from that time — some fifty millions of 

 years ago — he briefly sketched the earth's history, shewing how 

 hypogene forces are ever tending to elevate portions of the earth's 

 surface above ocean level, and how immediately thereupon 

 epigene forces set to work to reduce them to ocean level again. 

 He showed by means of diagrams thrown on the screen how 

 some of the original rivers of the Cleveland area had once flowed, 

 and traced the successive changes up to the time of the great ice 

 age. 



The blocks illustrating this paper have been kindly lent by 

 Mr. J. W. Brotton, of Battersby. 



