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they devoted themselves to those studies in the spirit which 
he had eadeavoured so imperfectly to describe, whether the 
time they could give was much or little, every step they took 
would lead them on in a path in which they might 
proceed, through a long life, with no hope, no doubt, of ever 
reaching the end, but which would open to them, as they 
advanced, new fields of ever-increasing beauty, attraction, 
and delight ; and whether they learned much or little of the 
history of this beautiful world, in which, by Grod's bounty, 
we were called to dwell — as they looked back over that vast 
expanse of ages which geological science opened so widely 
before their view, they would find, if he mistook not, in every 
lesson that they learned, in every fact that they made their 
own, in every branch of knowledge that opened fresh to 
them, an ever-increasing proof of the wisdom, the power, 
and the goodness of Him by whom this mighty universe 
was made, and by whose laws it was continually ruled. 
NOTES ON THE GLACIAL DRIFT NEAR RIPON. 
BY THE REV. J. STANLEY TUTE, B.A. 
The Beds of Glacial Drift near E/inon seem to be of three 
distinct ages, probably separated from each other by long 
intervals of time. The earliest of these is a bed of Black 
Boulder Clay on the south side of the valley of the Laver, 
a section of which has been exposed in a quarry of Mag- 
nesian Limestone near Oldfield. Upon the eroded surface of 
this lies the Brown Boulder Clay, which is the common Drift 
of the district. Over this again, on each side of the Ure near 
Ripon, is a mass of sand, cla}^, and gravel, derived partly from 
the Boulder Clays and partly from the disintegrated JN'ew 
Red Sandstone against which it rests. The sand is some- 
times red, sometimes white, and occurs in lenticular masses 
or in thin contorted beds. 
