Fossil Bones of the Elephant and Deer. 853 



Knowing the contents of the gravel in this locality to be 

 such as are shown in the foregoing list, previous to my excur- 

 sion into the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, last summer, 

 I will add, as the result of that excursion, that, from what I 

 could observe of the gravel pits around Ipswich, Norwich, 

 Cromer, and other parts of those counties, I found the same 

 miscellaneous collection of primary and trap specimens, with 

 broken flints embedded in ferruginous sand. In all the loca- 

 lities, with the exception of the one above mentioned where 

 there is such a collection of whole flints, the mineral contents 

 of the gravel of the three counties seem so analogous, that 

 there appears to be nothing to discountenance the idea of a 

 contemporaneity of deposition of this gravel, whatever differ- 

 ence there may be in the ages of the different rocks com- 

 posing it. 



In conclusion, I beg to say I do not advance this as any- 

 thing original : still I am not aware that anything has hitherto 

 been written on the mineral properties of the Essex gravel. 



In Suffolk and Norfolk, the geological position of the gravel 

 is superior to the shelly beds of the " crag ; " and, in Essex, to 

 the London clay. 



As rocks of the same chemical properties as many of the 

 boulders and pebbles which are found in our gravel are 

 abundant in countries to the north of the localities where this 

 gravel is now found, northerly currents of water are, it has 

 been said, the agents employed in transporting it to its pre- 

 sent resting-place ; but, as we have rocks in Devonshire and 

 Cornwall, and in that direction, of the same mineral com- 

 position, currents of water from the south-west would bring 

 together stones of a very similar nature, if not identical, with 

 those which are now found. 



Stanway, near Colchester, Essex, April 2. 1835. 



Art. X. A Notice of a netv Locality of specified Fossil Bones of 

 the Elephant and Deer, and of the Geological Conditions of this 

 Locality. By John Brown, Esq. 



Being at Ballingdon, in Essex, a few days ago, collecting 

 some rock specimens, which some think interesting as to the 

 geological history of our planet, and which are plentifully 

 found in the transported materials composing Ballingdon Hill, 

 and which hill is now being removed for the purpose of im- 

 proving the London road, I had not been long employed in 

 looking over this great accumulation of the debris of the various 

 geological formations, before I was informed that some bones 



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