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the feces of a Hyena, and the teeth and bones of extinct 
Mammals, cemented underneath a stalagmitic deposit to the roof 
of the cave; from which Dr. Falconer drew the inference, that the 
cave had been filled to the roof during the human period, so that a 
thick layer of bone-splinters, teeth, land-shells, and human imple- 
ments, had been agglutinated together, and that, subsequently, 
and within the human périod, such a change had taken place in the 
physical configuration of the district, as to cause the cave to be 
emptied of its contents, excepting the patches cemented to the 
roof. 
This is only one of the many startling facts which have been 
of late brought to light; which, with accumulating force and 
volume, seem to constrain the admission that man was at one 
time contemporaneous, not only with animals now extinct, but 
with a conformation of surface, and a distribution of land and 
water, very different from that which now exists on the surface of 
the globe. 
The occurrence of human implements associated with the 
teeth and bones of extinct species of Elephant, Rhinoceros, Bear, 
Hyena, Tiger, Stag, and Ox, in stratified gravel on the Chalk- 
hills of the Valley of the Somme, near Abbeville, and at St. 
Acheul, near Amiens, together with the late discovery in Brixham 
Cave, in Devonshire, of flint weapons in company with the bones 
of extinct animals, have brought the co-existence of them with 
man prominently forward amongst Geologists, who seem to be 
arriving at the conviction, that man and the extinct mammals 
referred to, were at one time contemporaneous, and if so, and the 
physical facts in connexion be correctly interpreted, then it would 
appear to follow, that the existence of man upon the earth must 
be ante-dated to a period immeasurably far beyond the 6,000 
years to which the human epoch has been usually limited. 
These are indeed startling facts, and the wonderful conclu- 
sions to which they seem to lead, may well make us hesitate before 
we adopt them in their full extent. Nevertheless, howsoever our 
interpretation may be at fault, the facts of Nature are incontro- 
vertible. ‘They are the acts of the Almighty Creator Himself, and 
have been written by Him “ for man’s understanding,” in charac- 
ters as imperishable as the rocks on which they are inscribed ; 
and we may feel perfectly satisfied that if the facts be true, and 
they be truly interpreted, we must accept the conclusions, no matter 
how much they may appear to militate against preconceived 
opinions, or against the apparent meaning of written records. 
On Wednesday, the 15th of June, the Club met at Dursley. 
The President, Secretary, and the Rev. J. H. Deane, proceeded 
from the Berkeley-road Station through the Stinchcombe Mar!- 
stone quarries, where nothing worthy of record was found, to a 
quarry, on the top of the hill above Dursley, where the strati- 
graphical relations of the beds are well shown. In descending 
