

TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



(bull Scientific 



AND 



jfielb •Waturaltste* Club. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S. 



NATURAL ASPECTS OF HULL AND DISTRICT. 

 By J. Fraser Robinson. 



HULL and the adjoining district of the East Riding 

 (Riding = trithing = third part) has not infrequently 

 been described as low-lying, flat, damp, depressing, 

 and generally tame and uninteresting. To the right 

 seeing eye, however, neither meanest object nor low-lying 

 district is insignificant, but on the contrary, full of mean- 

 ing and interest. But on the whole the epithet " low-lying" 

 is correct, as much being imported by the word "Hull" — 

 which is evidently of the same force as " Holl " in Holland 

 — the nether or low land. 



The River Hull, which has given the ordinary name to 

 the City of Kingston-upon-Hull, flows southward from 

 springs at the base of the Chalk Wolds near Driffield 

 (Deira-field?), and joins the estuary of the Humber at right 

 angles, making a sort of delta on which the nucleus that has 



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