188 Scientific Intelligence, — Geology, 



centuries, it is capable of entirely changing the relations esta- 

 blished by them in'a country immediately after its origin. — Hist. 

 de TAcad. Roy, des Sc. t, vi. p. cxiii. 



13. Fossil Sheletatis of Guadaloupe, — Cuvier finds that the 

 calcareous mass in which these human skeletons is imbedded, 

 contains land-shells and sea^shells of the same species as those 

 met with in the neighbouring sea and adjacent land ; that, there- 

 fore, the mass is modern, and the product of some encrusting 

 springs which run towards the place where the skeletons are 

 met with. 



14. Organic Remains of the Alluvium and Diluvium of 

 Sussex. — In the alluvial and diluvial deposits of Sussex, the 

 remains of animals hitherto discovered are very few, compared 

 with those found in other countries of England. Mr Mantell 

 mentions but two kinds as having been noticed (Geology of 

 Sussex, p. 284.), viz. the elephant and horse. A short time 

 since some , labourers, who were employed in deepening the bed 

 of the river Ouse, which flows through a chalk valley by Lewes, 

 and empties itself into the sea at Newhaven, discovered, in a 

 bed of sand beneath the blue alluvial clay that forms the 

 marshy tract called Lewes Levels, the entire skeleton of a deer 

 of a very large size. The horns were quite perfect, and mea- 

 sure 3 feet in height, and 3 feet 2 inches at their greatest width. 

 The antlers had seven points, and resembled in their form those 

 figured by Cuvier of the Canadian deer. The greater part of 

 the skeleton was destroyed by the carelessness of the workmen, 

 and a few bones only preserved. Of these, the tibia measures 

 14i inches in length, and the ulna 15 inches to the end of the 

 olecranon. The ramus of the lower jaw (imperfect) 11 inches. 

 These remains are in Mr MantelFs collection at Castle Place, 

 Lewes. Still more recently, bones of the deer have been found 

 in the diluvial gravel that forms the low line of cliffs to the 

 west of Brighton, at Copperas Gap near South wick. These, 

 like all the other bones that have been discovered in this bed, 

 were broken, and promiscuously intermingled with the soil. 

 Two teeth of a species of deer, and portions of several humeri, 

 were identified. Part of the tusk of an elephant was also found 

 with them, and pebbles of granite, in a state of decomposition. 

 Teeth of the Asiatic elephant have been met with in the loam- 



