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for the cellars of the Railway Hotel. Like those found near the mouth of the 

 tunnel, they were imbedded in a mass of red stiff clay full of large angular boulders, 

 most of them of local origin. 



Later study of these Angular drifts containing Mammalian remains induces 

 me to believe that they are for the most part atmospheric, and owe their origin 

 to that latter portion of the Glacial epoch which is termed Post-glacial, but when 

 the cold was very intense during the autumn and winter months, and ice and 

 snow enveloped every hill and dale, while at the same time the long-haired 

 elephant and rhinoceros were the inhabitants of the Malvems and the Cottes- 

 wolds, and the ancient vales of the Severn, Avon, Wye, and Usk. 



