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pockets of brownish marl about two to five feet under the present 

 surface. It is to be found under a considerable part of the area, 

 and crosses under Stall-street to the Pump room. I cannot describe 

 it better than by calling it a comparatively modem " Kitchen 

 Midden," of later date of course than those of Denmark, but I 

 cannot quite decide at what point of the historic period it should 

 be placed, though it is clearly above the Roman city. It contains 

 a cm-ious assemblage of organic remains, viz. : — 



Very small fish jaws, teeth, and vertebrae 

 Frogs, bones of 

 Teeth of dog 

 Small mammalian bones 

 Hog, bones of 

 Ox, bones of 

 Nuts, shells of 

 Seeds of several kinds 

 Various vegetable remains, <fec., &c. 

 Insect remains 



Anabacea, a coral from fuller's earth 

 Small univalves from great oolite. 



The species in the pre-historic alluvium are as follow — 



Helix pulchella 

 „ rotuudata 

 „ hortensis 

 „ hispida 

 Clausilia nigi'icana 

 Planorbis spirorbis 

 „ albus 

 „ nautileus 

 Cyclostoma elegans 

 Limulus stagnalis 



„ peregi-a 

 Bithinia tentaculata 



Buhmus acuta 



Azeca tridens 



Zua lubrica 



Valvata piscinalis 



Cyclas cornea 



Chara, several species 



Fish remains 



Entomostraca, three species 



Horse 



Hog 



Bos longifrons 



Roe deer, &c., (fee. 



Before the time of the Romans and their diverting the hot 

 springs into their baths, some of which are still remaining, the 

 healing waters had over an enormous time been pouring forth and 



