ON THE STUDY OF LOCAL ARCHAOLOGY. 
INAUGURAL ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT MARYPORT. 
BY THE 
RIGHT Rey. THE] BISHOP OF BARROW-IN-FURNESS. 
Ir has been the custom of your Association that your President 
should occupy his honourable position for two successive years. 
It appears to me that, whatever the advantages or disadvantages 
of that course in other respects, at all events both the President 
and those over whom he presides might well be released from a 
second inaugural address. Such, however, has not, I am told, 
been your rule ; and therefore it is my duty to address you to-day. 
But on this second occasion, I need not detain you by any very 
lengthy remarks, especially as we have before us a somewhat full 
programme of papers to be read. 
Your Association exists chiefly for the purpose of encouraging 
the various local literary, scientific, and naturalist societies 
which exist in Cumberland and Westmorland, and making their 
proceedings better known to each other. These smaller local 
associations are of very great benefit. They ought by all means to 
be perpetuated and encouraged ; not only because they collect and 
record a number of local facts and observations which are of value 
and might otherwise be lost, but also because they extend the love 
of such studies to a great number of people whose position and 
avocations do not permit them often to travel far from home, 
but who may derive from them great pleasure and benefit. 
We are all only too apt to let our minds be confined to the 
narrow round of our own daily employment. And it seems to me 
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