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part, and consist of remains of the elephant, rhinoceros, 

 ox, deer, &c. Yellow sand, 5 ft. A layer of fuller's earth, 

 with harder concretions, is found between these beds and the 

 ragstone. The calcareous loam has no appearance of strati- 

 fication, and contains so much gravel that it is obliged to be 

 washed before it can be used by the brickmaker. Higher up 

 the hill, and reposing on the green sand, is a deposit of gravel, 

 consisting of chalk-flints, ragstone, and sandstone in ferrugin- 

 ous sand. 



These brick-earth deposits, with calcareous nodules, but of 

 much less thickness, may be traced for some distance about 

 this neighbourhood, a small portion being worked at Debt- 

 ling, which there reposes on the chalk. 



Mammalian remains also occur in other places, as near 

 Sandling, about one mile from Maidstone, where the follow- 

 ing section is exposed on the side of the road near to the 

 river : — 1. Yellow sandy clay, with few flints, 12 ft. ; 2. Green- 

 ish grey sand, with bones, 1 ft. ; 5. Flints, in yellow sand, 

 4 in. The remains are observed only in No. 2., and consist 

 of a rib-bone, one of the pelvis, and some fragments, proba- 

 bly of ruminants, but so much decomposed, and falling to 

 pieces when touched, that it is impossible to remove them. 



Passing along the road a quarter of a mile is a section of 

 rubbly chalk worthy of notice, as it occurs two miles from any 

 chalk in situ ; the upper part consisting of large and small 

 chalk nodules, below which is a series of alternating veins of 

 sand, comminuted chalk, rounded and angular flints, which 

 overlie a stratum of mixed chalk and flint nodules, the latter 

 not much rolled, and reposing on the green sand. 



Lower down the river, at Bostle, is a gravel-pit above the 

 chalk, in which numerous teeth and bones of the elephant 

 have been found. 



I have not seen any remains of carnivorous animals from 

 the above-described deposits ; but a discovery of them took 

 place a few years ago at Boughton, near Maidstone, in a 

 chasm of the green sand, consisting of teeth and bones of 

 the hyaena, wolf, fox, associated with those of the water-rat, 

 &c, embedded in a loamy sand with calcareous nodules, 

 specimens of which are in the museum of the London 

 Geological Society. 



From the above observations, we have evidence of the 

 deposition of lacustrine sand fluviatile strata when the phy- 

 sical structure of the district differed little from the present, 

 and after a portion of the gravel beds were deposited. 



The remains embedded are those of quadrupeds, and of 

 testaceous Mollusca which inhabit the banks of rivers and 



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