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block of subangular Oolite from the Coral band of Great Oolite 

 which caps our hills, measured in its greatest length 1ft, 10^- in., 

 in breadth 1ft. 3in., and in thickness llin. Another block of a 

 lightish yellow Saccharine Sandstone, most probably Millstone 

 Grit, measured in its greatest length 2ft. 9in., in breadth 1ft. 6in., 

 and in thickness Sin. This was smoothed and polished, and had its 

 angles rounded. Charles Sawyer, the man who digs the gravel, 

 informed the writer that the largest stone he had taken out 

 weighed near three cwt. How were these large masses moved and 

 dropped in their present position ? I would venture to suggest 

 they may have been rafted down from their site by ice floes ; 

 which as they gradually melted dropped their burden on to the 

 floor on which they grounded. Though from the nature of the 

 rocks around us they are too soft to preserve any traces of a glacial 

 period, yet we may infer that there was a time when our local 

 hills and valleys were coated in an ice sheet — as Avere we know 

 those of the North and Midland Counties of England. Indeed, 

 Charles Moore always held this opinion from other indications 

 which in his long and intimate knowledge of our local geology 

 he had from time to time observed. It is time now to mention 

 the contents of our pit. From the section it will be noticed that 

 many ferruginous stained bands of sand and gravel run through 

 it ; in or near these, and especially at the base, bones of extinct 

 animals have been found, amongst which may be enumerated the 

 following — Molar teeth and portions of bones and tusk of Elephas 

 primigenius ; Molar tooth of Elephas, antiquus (?) ; Molar teeth 

 of Rhinoceros tichorinus, and Bos (primigenius), — teeth and 

 Metatarsal bone of Eqtius fossilis, &c. With regard to the 

 portion of the tusk of the Mammoth — having at the close of 

 the meeting of the British Association at Manchester, in 

 September, heard that some bones had been recently uncovered, 

 on my return I at once went to the pit and found at the depth of 

 five feet below the gravel the portion of a tusk of that Mammal, 

 lying point upwards and sloping down into the gravel. The 



