THE COUNCIL. 
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relate to Yorkshire, are its principal objects ; and of these 
objects, in whatever degree the Institution may be enlarged, 
it ought by no means ever to lose sight. Other collections 
within these walls will have their use for the instruction of 
the student; but as far as the progress of learning or 
science is concerned, intelligence of the district to which 
we belong, is our proper study and our most useful 
pursuit. 
Reverting, then, again to the subject of antiquities, the 
Council have to remark, that among the communications 
made to the Society during the last year, there was a paper 1 
on the discovery of a Roman road, and works connected with 
it, on the Wolds, which had a peculiar interest in this point 
of view ; and it has been suggested that a great benefit might 
be conferred on some future topographer of the county, if 
similar observations were made by other members of the 
Society, and communicated, with proper measurements and 
plans, to be deposited in the archives of the Museum. 
66 These works,the Curator has justly remarked, (C are 
objects of importance to the reader of history, as well as to 
the antiquary. Many such works have disappeared ; and 
many are continually disappearing. The plough that 
discloses the rust-eaten javelin, and the empty helmet, and 
the bones of the horse and his rider, levels the ramparts, 
obliterates the causey, and effaces all the labors of the 
victorious legions of Rome. To trace the four great roads 
by which Britain was traversed during its subjection to that 
power, has long baffled the exertions of the most diligent and 
1 By the Rev. Mr. Rankin, 
