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all right, but who cannot get it out of him in such a way as to 

 benefit us. It comes out in the form of awful polysyllabic words 

 which belong to a language of which we know nothing, and 

 which therefore repel us, and convey to us no meaning. Most 

 of our would-be guides belong to one or other of these two 

 classes. Mr. Sheppard does not. He knows his Yorkshire and 

 he knows his geology. His knowlege is well up-to-date, and 

 he does not employ verba sesqiiipedalia when a monosyllable will 

 equally well serve his turn. He starts from the Spurn and takes 

 us right round the coast to Redcar, gossiping pleasantly the 

 while regarding the ' solid ' geology, and the geology which is 

 not solid. Then he takes us back to the mouth of the Humber 

 and thence to the top of the Wolds, from which, having learnt 

 all about them, we wander back into Holderness, and finish at 

 Paull, which is doubtless a nice quiet place at which to rest after 

 so long a ramble. And a rest we shall surely want, because not 

 only will our minds be full to overflowing with hard facts need- 

 ing digestion, but our bags will be full of fossils and fragments 

 of ' travelled rocks ' — the planets of the geological world — which 

 migrated ages ago, as though seeking a more congenial climate, 

 from Scandinavia or the Scotch or Cumbrian mountains. 



There is not a dull page in Mr. Sheppard's book, which, by 

 the way, contains some 250 pages with over 50 illustrations in 

 the best style, a geologically coloured map of the district, and 

 a full index. As we read the author's accounts of recent 

 discoveries in the area with which he deals, we feel that though 

 there is no assertion of the quorum pars magna fni yet his own 

 geological work in the area has been of considerable importance. 

 Doubtless in the future he will, by orig'inal investigation, help 

 on the geological knowlege of the district of East Yorkshire, 

 but possibly in this respect he will do nothing more effective 

 than he has done in writing the work before us, for we trust 

 that it will whet the appetite of many a tyro for knowledge of 

 the earth's crust and of the successive changes which it has 

 undergone, and that the stimulus received from it will result in 

 the production of a large band of intelligent and enthusiastic 

 workers to add their labours to those of that body of Yorkshire 

 geologists which is now far in advance of any similar body in 

 any other county. The book ought to find its way into the 

 hands of everyone who spends a holiday on the Yorkshire coast, 

 while it is still more interesting to all who dwell in East 

 Yorkshire. It will form an admirable companion for both 

 classes of readers. 



Naturalist, 



