A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
The first mention of Bedfordshire fossils seems to have been in the 
year 1728, and since then much work has been done on the palzonto- 
logy of the county, the results having been given in numerous papers. 
The chief interest in the geology of Bedfordshire has continued to 
lie in the economic products and the fossils of its strata, but it was 
thought advisable to devote the most attention in the preceding pages to 
the geological history of the county, and especially to the physical 
changes which it appears to have undergone. 
1 Dr. John Woodward, 4 Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, ii. 93, 104. 
See also vol. i. (1729), pt. 1, pp. 60, 62 ; pt. 2, pp. 67, 72. 
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