THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS 



lessly inconsistent with the most readily ascertained facts 

 revealed in any quarry or coast section. But until it is put in 

 clearer form it is not worth discussion. It will be more to 

 the point to see what really is the nature of the argument 

 which these critics travesty. 



When I was at school at Winchester, which is one of the 

 oldest cities of England, new drains were laid down and a 

 deep trench was dug along a street in ground that had never 

 been disturbed before. (Fig. 1.) Passing this trench every 







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Fig. 1. — Section exposed in a city street. 



day, I acquired many articles that the workmen threw out. 

 Just below the latest road metal they found coins of the 

 Georges and fragments of china; at a lower level they 

 turned up a bit of green glazed mediaeval earthenware; 

 below this, among other Roman remains, was a piece of the 

 red ware known as Samian ; still lower was a fragment of the 

 rough black earthen pottery made in Britain before the 

 Romans came. These objects, which I still possess, with 

 various coins and other things, were all in such an order 

 that the historically oldest lay at the greatest depth. From a 

 layer below these I obtained a piece of hard bone, shaped 



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