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The highest point of the Cotteswold Hills is at the race- 

 course, at Cleeve, and is 1,093 feet; from there the ground 

 falls on the S.W. continuously ; but on the N.E. only for a 

 short distance, -when it again rises until it reaches, at Broad- 

 way tower, 1,030 feet. By reference to the map the rise from 

 the Severn valley to the hills is well shown, beginning at 

 Coombe Hill, where it is 30 feet above the sea ; in the High 

 Street, at Cheltenham, 194 feet; the west angle of the new 

 chui'ch, at Charlton Kings, 264, feet; Dowdeswell tollgate, 

 350 ; Sandywell Park, 698 feet ; the ground then falls to 548 

 feet at Andoversford and it afterwards gradually rises until at 

 Pewsdown tollbar it attains a height of 824 feet, and falls from 

 there to Northleach to 557 feet. 



There is a very close correspondence in the height of the 

 outlier of Bredon with some other points of the main hills of 

 the Cotteswold, as wiU be noticed in the following table : — 



Bredon ... 

 Leckhampton ... 

 Near Birdlip . . . 

 Painswick Beacon 

 Broadway Tower 



975ft. 

 978,, 

 955,, 

 929,, 

 103] „ 



I am indebted to Mr. Boyd Dawkins for part of the following 

 list of Mammalian remains : * 



Elephas primigenius .. 



Hippopotamus Major. . 

 Rhinoceros ticliorhinus 

 Elephas antiquus 

 Cervus elephus 



/ Gravel, Malvern Hills. 

 " \ Jermyn St. Museum. 



> Defford, Eckington. 





* In a note to me lie says, " There is one point in connection vnth. the Severn 

 Valley that you may care to know. From my tabulated list of post-glacial 

 Mammalian remains I have inferred that during the post-glacial epoch the 

 hills of Wales were covered with glaciers, as those of Scotland undoubtedly 

 were. The latter country, indeed, was partially covered with a sheet of ico 

 like that of Greenland. Glaciers in Wales being granted, the occurrence of 

 post-glacial mammals in glacial gravels is what might be expected." 

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