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REPORT OF 
the object of the antiquary is different from that of the natural 
philosopher, the method which he follows is the same. He 
also is a collector of facts ; and the facts which he records for 
the use of the moralist and the statesman, are spread over a no 
less extended geographical surface, and are to be amassed in 
like manner by combining and directing the industry of many 
persons. A history of the antiquities of Yorkshire has been 
already stated to be one of the professed objects of the Society, 
and the Council has been advised by the Curator of that 
department that a plan is now proposed for carrying the object 
into effect. The Members who cultivate this branch of research 
have in consequence been requested to form a Committee, for 
the purpose of inviting and collecting topographical, and other 
antiquarian information from all parts of the county; a task of 
which the nature will be best explained in the words of the 
learned Curator . 1 
6i There are not only in this ancient city and its neighbour¬ 
hood, but in every part of the great county of York, many 
most interesting remains of days gone by, with which matters 
of history, both general and local, public and private, are con¬ 
nected, which are continually suffering from the silent ravages 
of time, or exposed to the danger of being swept entirely away 
by the unsparing hand of improvement. There are Druidical 
circles, and sepulchral tumuli; ancient roads, and artificial 
boundaries; Roman camps ; Saxon or Danish earth-works, 
and Norman baronial castles ; there are ruins of religious 
houses, and decaying churches; monumental tablets, and 
sculptured effigies ; w r ith many other things perishable in their 
nature, but connected with deeds and persons, the memory of 
which ought not to pass away, and wdiich can be preserved 
only in the faithful records of the antiquary. 
s The Rev. Charles Wellbeloved. 
