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men express it. I have one of good tongue shape and dirty white 

 colour, slightly abraded. Beneath the turf and a little " dirt " and 

 the surface stones come the sandy drift and river silt, varying in 

 depth from a foot or two to perhaps four feet in an irregular 

 manner. But towards the centre and right of the gravel face the 

 silt tends to disappear, at any rate in its undisturbed condition. 



Beneath it (as in the hole at the edge of the platform) lies the 

 ochreous gravel. It is almost the despair of an incipient geologist. 

 It bears distinct signs of stratification in places, and in its middle 

 and lower part thin lines of loose Hints blackened with manganese. 

 But the whole mass is disturbed and confused, and portions of 

 strata seem to lie at very various angles. I have taken implements 

 from this face in situ with my lingers, but they are far less numerous 

 than in the river silt. They are sometimes but little abraded, at 

 others more so. They are ochreous, brown, greenish-ochreous, or 

 ochreous-green in colour. In parts, at any rate, there are also 

 the familiar abraded and striated Hints showing faintly beneath 

 the scratches dull purple, crimson, brown, &c. But these may, 

 perhaps, belong to certain masses of light-coloured sandy gravel 

 which are incorporated in the ochreous gravel and seem to bear 

 some relation to the river silt above. The gravel rests in an ir- 

 regular manner upon the chalk. Here are large unworn flints as 

 fresh almost as when they left the chalk. Here, also, is a little 

 clay containing particles of some black substance, and here, too, 

 practically on the chalk, are found implements and other " human " 

 stones, sometimes abraded, but often sharp and grey -black. These 

 latter are of excellent shape in outline and of a fine, bold style of 

 workmanship. Once or twice the men have found a blackened 

 patch upon the clay at the base as though a fire had once burnt 

 there (?). I have preserved a little of the material. I have also 

 taken out stones reddened and otherwise discoloured and cracked 

 by fire, both from the ochreous gravel and river silt, but especially 

 from the latter. Implements of immense antiquity, and derived 

 from a considerable distance and from greater heights, are found in 

 both materials. Some implements from the silt, not necessarily 

 of so great age, are reduced almost to pebbles. (Why did not 



