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A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE The first mention of Bedfordshire fossils seems to have been in the year 1728, 1 and since then much work has been done on the palaeonto- logy of the county, the results having been given in numerous papers. The chief interest in the geology of Bedfordshire has continued to lie in the economic products and the fossils of its strata, but it was thought advisable to devote the most attention in the preceding pages to the geological history of the county, and especially to the physical changes which it appears to have undergone. 1 Dr. John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, ii. 93, 104. See also vol. i. (1729), pt. 1, pp. 60, 62 ; pt. 2, pp. 67, 72. 32
