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part of Yorkshire ; and guided by the knowledge which he had even 
then acquired, ot the correspondence of contour between different 
portions of the same strata, he decided at once, on a distant view, that 
the wolds were composed of chalk, and that the moorlands belonged to 
the oolitic series of rocks. This opinion was fully expressed in his 
manuscript Map of the Strata of England, for the publication of which 
proposals were issued in 1800. 
" The coast was afterwards further examined by him in 1813 ; 
in 1817, I had the advantage of accompanying him to Whitby and 
Scarborough, and was much occupied there with him also in 1820. In 
his Geological Map of Yorkshire published in 1821, the lines of chalk, 
Kimmeridge Clay, and coralline oolite, are traced with considerable 
accuracy, but the lower beds are erroneously named, owing to the 
anomalous character of the strata, which in this district represent the 
oolites of Bath. The error, however, was quickly discovered by 
Mr. Smith, and corrected in several copies of the map which I coloured 
for his friends. In the same year he shewed me some fossils collected 
by him near Scarborough, which I immediately recognised as belonging 
to the Kelloways rock ; but so cautious is this experienced geologist in 
the application of his own rules, that he scrupled to rely on such evi- 
dence of indentity between two points so distant as the localities in 
Wilts., and in Yorkshire ; and it was not until 1824, that he satisfied 
himself by a re-examination of the cliffs at Scarborough, with a par- 
ticular view to their relations with other rocks, of the distinct existence 
there, both of this and of most of the other members ot the series which 
lies between the coralline oolite and the the lias." 
FITTON, 1833 
In an admirable series of " Notes on the History of English 
Geology," Dr. William Henry Fitton, F.R.S, in The Philosophical 
Magazine (1832-3) reviews the claims of various geologists in regard 
to discoveries in stratigraphical geology. Much of his paper is ad- 
mittedly on similar lines to the notes which appeared from his pen, 
though not signed, in The Edinburgh Review for 1818. 
The Section of the paper appearing in The Philosophical Magazine 
for February 1833 is almost entirely devoted to Smith's work. He 
had previously carefully, even generously, considered the claims of 
other workers. He concludes : — 
