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some satisfactory results. Along the flanks of the Malverns they have 

 yielded the remains of Elephas antiquus and Rhinoceros tichorinus, animals 

 that lived through the Glacial epoch. 



The Malvern Museum possesses some of these interesting relics, -which 

 were found in digging for the foundation of the KaHway Hotel at Great 

 Malvern, lying in a stiff clay, and covered by a mass of subangular 

 atmospheric debris. 



Some fine bones of these animals, with the forearm of Bos primigenius, 

 were presented to me by Mr. Stephen Ballakd, from three localities on 

 the flanks of the Malverns ; and I have lately obtained a nearly perfect 

 molar of the Mammoth from the Gravels of Twining, at Shuthonger 

 common, near Tewkesbury. A fine molar of Elephas antiquus has also been 

 found lately by Henet Beooks, the Ledbury geologist, among the gravel 

 overlying the masses of angular blocks which are heaped against the 

 side of the hill, known as the Clinchers Mill Wood, near Ledbury. The 

 position and size of these angular blocks are remarkable, and Mr. Pbestwich 

 and Mr. Eobeet Chambees, both well-known authorities on ice phenomena, 

 agree with me in attributing their deposition to the effect of coast ice 

 drifting down the Clinchers MiU Bay during the epoch of the Malvern 

 Straits, 



No shells have hitherto been detected in these deposits of gravel, clays, 

 and sand, although in the low level drifts we shall observe that they are 

 not uncommon. My readers wUl doubtless remark that the Glacial cUmate 

 continued during the deposition of the high level drifts, as evidenced by 

 the Clinchers MiU blocks. This was probably the period of the Glaciers of 

 Snowdon and the mountains of Scotland and Ireland, a period long 

 posterior to that of the Rock Drift, when I think it probable that even our 

 Malverns received their rounded form by the ice action of a frozen sea* 

 whereas, during the deposition ol the high level drifts their hoary heads 

 were well above the sea which washed over some three hundred feet of 

 their eastern base. 



The long-haired elephant and the long-haired rhinoceros roamed over the 

 lands of the Cotteswolds, the Malverns, and Siluria; and left their remains 

 to testify of their existence, while, doubtless, the vegetation was of Arctic 

 type, and included such plants as the herbaceous willow, the Alpine 

 gentian (Gentiana nivalis J, and the snow Saxifrages and Veronicas. 



The Low Level Dkifts.— (Estuarine on the Severn, and Freshwater on 

 the Avon, and probably Wye and Usk.) I formerly was inclined to correlate 

 these drifts with those of a much later period, which will be described 

 hereafter as belonging to the Lake period. Within the last few months 

 my distinguished friend, Mr. Pbestwich, has convinced me that I was 

 wrong, and that the low level drifts are altogether antecedent to, 



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