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Excerpt from Yorkshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, From the Earliest Ages to the Year 1870; With an Account of Its Manufactures, Commerce, and Civil and Mechanical Engineering
The Eastern Range of Mountains and Hills - Highly important also in their in¿uence on the development of modern society were the causes which, at some remote period, raised from the ocean the lofty rocks, the rich mineral beds, and the fertile soils, which extend from the coasts of the North and East Ridings of York shire into the interior of those'two Ridings. These mountains and hills are of the Lias, the Oolite,'and the Chalk formations, and belong to strata which are not found in any part of Great Britain lying north of the county of York. They appear to emerge from the German Ocean, on the coastsof the North and of the East Ridings, whence they spread westerly, and then run in a southerly direction to the southern borders of Yorkshire. After passing under the Humber the strata rise again, increase in width, and spread over the midland, eastern, and southern counties of England, until they again reach the British Channel, and disappear beneath its waters.
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