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Here are different houses of worship, 
viz. an elegant church of the established 
religion ; and several meeting-houses be- 
longing to Presbyterians, Quakers, Me¬ 
thodists, Papists, &c. 
Whitby is 50 miles north-east of York, 
and 243 north of London ; Lat. 54° 30' 
North, Long. 1° 55' West. 
The word Whitby is a contraction of 
its original appellation White-bay, so cal¬ 
led from the white surges made by the 
breaking of the waves along the shore, 
so that the whole bay assumes a white 
or frothy appearance to a person stand¬ 
ing upon the opposite banks. 
Contiguous to this place, in a town 
called' Marton, was born that great cir¬ 
cumnavigator Captain James Cook, whose 
barometer (that which he used in his 
voyages of discovery,) we had on board 
the Resolution. 
Between Whitby and Lyth, a small 
town distant about four miles, is a beau- 
