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limestone from Teesdale or Swaledale, and of the 

 granite and syenite from the Shap Fells and Car- 

 rock Pike. In numerous papers dedicated to the 

 local geology of Scarborough, his reflections on 

 these subjects are recorded ; his exertions in 

 examining one curious case of dislocation on the 

 north side of the Castle Hill, brought on rheumatic, 

 or rather a paralytic affection of the muscles of the 

 lower extremities, which bound him a prisoner in 

 bed in the early part of 1825. 



Previous to this accident, he had taken part in a 

 course of lectures to the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Hull ; after it had occurred, and before 

 its effects were removed, while yet he was incapable 

 of walking, and was actually lifted into the carriage 

 which took him away, he accepted and executed a 

 similar engagement proposed by the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Sheffield. It was a sin- 

 gular spectacle, to witness the delivery of lectures 

 which required continual reference to large maps 

 and numerous diagrams, by a man who could not 

 stand, but was forced to read his address from a 

 chair, to an audience of several hundred persons 

 in a room not very well adapted for the voice. 

 But it was far more extraordinary to witness 

 during all the severity of the disorder, the unpre- 

 tending patience and fortitude of the sufferer, who, 

 had he then permitted his mind to dwell too 

 curiously on the state of his health and the state 

 of his finances, might have added the bitter fore- 

 taste of want and privation to the actual difficulty 



