72 Notes on the Geology of South Ferriby. 
and I shall not be much surprised if before very long, the whole 
island should take its departure.” 
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The island however is still there, and at present has 450 acres : 
under grass. Since Mr. Oldham’s time the channel between the 
island and the mainland has shallowed more than once, and 
during the past twenty-five years steamboats passing between 
Goole and the sea have had to alternately take the north or south 
course according to the manner in which the channel changed. 
Such is the geological history or the district around South 
Ferriby. Sir Walter Scott once wrote 
‘‘ Breathes here a man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said 
This is my own, my native land !” 
That is precisely what I have endeavoured to say in the fore- 
going pages. I have not stopped however, at making the brief 
statement that South Ferriby is my birthplace, but I have tried to 
explain how that land came to be. This has taken a little 
longer to do! 
COUNTY DIVISIONS. 
Where, in any article, the localities are denoted by 
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numbers, reference to the following list will give the District. 
Norta LINCOLNSHIRE. ; 
1.—Isle of Axholme. 7.—Market Rasen. 
2.—Winterton and Broughton. 8.—Louth. 
3.—Barton and Caistor. 9.—Saltfleet (Littoral). 
4.—Great Grimsby. 10.—Horneastle and West Fen. — 
5.—Kirton and Gainsborough. 11.—Alford and Burgh. 
6.—Lineoln (North). 12.-- Boston and East Fen. 
SouTH LINCOLNSHIRE. 
13.—Lineoln (South). 16.—Bourn and Stamford. 
14.—Sleaford. 17. Swineshead and Donington. 
15.—Grantham. 18.—Spalding and Holbeach. 
N. and S. denotes North and South Lincolnshire re- — 
spectively, divided into two yice-counties by the River Witham 
and the Foss Dyke, ‘ 
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