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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
brattices of wood-work seemed inconvenient and iinplnlosopbical 
and we, rather dissatisfied, hastened back through Ripon and 
Harrogate, where the M.D. took a nauseous draught of sulphur 
water as we sat in the chaise. We had crossed the yellow limestone 
between Kipon and Ripley." 
Twenty-six years afterwards Smith again frequented Yorkshire. 
Phillips records* that : — 
" Early in 1820 Mr. Smith was employed in Leicestershire, 
but the greater part of the year was passed in Yorkshire, about 
Ferrybridge, \Miitby and Scarborough. While staying at the 
romantic and delightful town just named (in hopes to soothe the 
mental aberration of bis wife, which became very manifest in this 
year), he imbibed for it a partiality which augmented with further 
knowledge. Mr. Dunn, one of the most affectionate and highly 
esteemed of his friends, remembers that even at this period it was 
in contemplation to found a museum at Scarborough, and that 
Mr. Smith attended a private meeting of a few inhabitants for the 
purpose, but the project was not urged into effect till after some 
years had elapsed, when the same individuals undertook the task 
of establishing the Scarborough Philosophical Society with better 
omens and stronger assurances of support. 
" Early in 1821 the writer walked through the eastern parts 
of Yorkshire and rejoined Mr. Smith at Doncaster, and from this 
point accompanied him in a walking excursion through the coal 
district of the West Riding, passing by Bamborough, Houghton, 
Cudworth, Shafton, Wakefield, Ardsley, Horbury, Thornhill (the 
Rectory of the Rev. John Michell, the celebrated Woodwardian 
professor), Flockton, Bretton, Haigh Bridge, Silkstone, Stain- 
borough Inn,Wentworth Castle, Tankersley Park, Wentworth Park, 
Rawmarsh and Conisborough. In this excursion particular 
attention was given to determine the true general order of the coal 
beds, ironstone courses, and characteristic rocks, and the result is 
seen in a comprehensive section on the Yorkshire map, to which 
nothing similar had ever been attempted in this country, perhaps 
in Europe. From the notes and sketches made on this journey, 
the first page is taken to show the kind of information which it was 
* loc. cit., pp. 94-96. 
