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Excerpt from The Fossils of the Yorkshire Lias, Described From Nature: With a Carefully Measured Section of the Strata, and the Fossils Peculiar to Each
The publication of this work immediately produced a general revolution in publick Opinion respecting the fossil remains of the district, and excited great zeal for further discovery. There was, indeed, at this time, in Whitby, a strong desire after intellec tual pursuits, not only amongst the learned, but amongst many whose circumstances in life were unfavourable to such pursuits. The cessation of a long and exhausting war, the energies aroused by that war, and the want of employment before the return of commercial prosperity, all had a tendency to intellectual pursuits, and, no doubt, contributed greatly to the establishment of Philosophical Insti tutions and Museums, which the great wealth and the national prosperity of the present era scarcelv sustain.
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