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and to read a paper on tlie British pit dwellings in tlie 
neighbourhood. The history of pottery had also lately had 
great attention paid to it ; but the paper by Mr. Sandwith, 
to be read by Mr. Holmes, would take them much further 
than they had ever known the subject being treated before, 
carrying them back to the time that the Greeks first learned 
the art of making pottery. The last paper was on the 
Roman roads of Yorkshire — they had a good specimen of a 
Roman road in the immediate neighbourhood ; and the history 
of these excited great interest. He would not occupy their 
time any further. 
The following gentlemen and a lady were here proposed 
and admitted members of the Society : — Maken Durham, Esq., 
Thome, Doncaster ; J. M. Hep worth, Esq., Ackworth Hall, 
Pontefract ; George Bradley, Esq., Acton Hall, Pontefract ; 
M. Heslop, Esq., Doncaster; Mrs. Walbanke Childers, Cantley 
Hall, Doncaster. 
ON SOME PECULIAR GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ROMBOLD's MOOR. 
BY MR. EDWARD SEWELL, M.A., F.R.G.S., OF ILKXEY. 
No county in England is perhaps so remarkable as York- 
shire for the number of its moors or eminences with extensive 
flat tops, or tops consisting of a succession of plateaux, or 
slightly undulating ground. 
Among these moors, not one that I am acquainted with 
comes so much under the denomination of a regular table- 
land as Rombold's or Rumble's Moor. Including outliers, 
it is nearly twelve miles in length, from Skipton to Baildon, 
and six miles in breadth, from the Aire, near Bingley, to the 
Wharfe at Tikley ; the summit reaches 1,320 feet above the 
level of the [sea. From this high level the whole area of 
Rombold's Moor descends towards the river Wharfe in 
plateaux from three to four miles long, and three-quarters* 
