PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
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AT THE SEVENTIETH MEETING, HELD IN THE 
ROOMS OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF HALIFAX, 
ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH, 1867. 
JOHN WATERHOUSE, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
IN THE CHAIR. 
The President having briefly welcomed the Members of 
the Society to Halifax, and expressed a hope that their 
Meetings would be held oftener there than they had hitherto 
been of late years, called upon the Rev. John Stanley Tute, 
of Markington, to read the first Paper. 
THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY NEAR RIPON. BY THE REV. 
JOHN STANLEY TUTE. 
The city of Ripon is built upon a thick bed of Glacial drift, 
which lies in a trough, between the Magnesian limestone and 
the New red sandstone. This drift is to the geologist parti- 
cularly interesting. But before I proceed to speak of the 
manner in which, apparently, it was deposited, it will be well 
first to describe the older formations upon which it lies : and 
in doing so I shall take them in a descending order. 
The most recent of these is the New Red sandstone. This 
lies to the east of Ripon, and rises into a gentle hill near the 
