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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
To assist Mr. Smith's researches the author made a variety 
of other journeys from Doncaster, as to Roche Abbey, Gringley- 
on-the-Hill, and Gainsborough. At length the materials for 
completing the geological map of Yorkshire were deemed sufficient, 
and this remarkable work was published in the summer of 1821, 
in four sheets." 
Still later it is recorded by Phillips that : — 
" Some professional engagements at Scarborough and in other 
parts of Yorkshire occasionally drew Mr. Smith's attention, and 
he was especially interested in arranging a plan for a better supply 
of water to Scarborough. The deficiency of water in the summer 
season, when Scarborough is full of visitors, was extreme ; the 
structure of the promontory on which the town and castle stand 
is such as to yield only a very inconsiderable quantity of water 
on the spot ; and the distant springs, which, by reason of their 
higher level, might be available for the supply of the town, are in ' 
general beyond the control of the corporation. 
" One small spring on Palsgrave Moor was at the disposal of 
the engineer, and it was in the economising of this scanty rill that 
Mr. Smith exercised his ingenuity. He applied this ingenuity 
at each end of the water-course. In the hill he excavated a 
subterranean reservoir, which might preserve from suiface waste 
the water at its origin, and in the town he constructed a large 
closed reservoir, to meet the irregular demand of a varying popu- 
lation. These plans were successful, the little spring became a 
great blessing ; the town is benefited ; but it has grown in size, 
and now requires a further effort to obtain further supplies from 
another source." 
OTHER MAPS OF SOILS, Etc. 
Of course it is not contended that Smith was the first to map 
soils and rocks, as the following notes will show. 
GEORGE OWEN, 1595. 
The old historians and topographers, as is well known, often made 
reference to facts of geological interest. Perhaps one of the earliest of 
