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Large blocks of granite, and the remains of much older formations 
than the London clay, are observed lying on the shore, particularly 
in Bracklesham Bay. It is difficult to account satisfactorily for their 
appearance. The general opinion is, that they have been transported 
by the agency of ice, and those frozen masses called glaciers. 
The remains of the fossil Elephant or Mammoth, the Horse, Ox, 
Deer and Goat, are occasionally discovered in the muddy deposit of 
Selsey and Bracklesham. 
The discovery of tusks, teeth and bones of Elephants in England 
caused much wonder and discussion amongst our early geologists, who 
considered the introduction of tropical animals into temperate regions 
as the trophies of Roman greatness and splendour, and the remains 
of the Elephant were deemed an additional proof of the former subjec- 
tion of this country to that mighty empire. We are indebted to 
Cuvier for correcting these vague conjectures, who says,—“‘ If, passing 
across the German Ocean, we transport ourselves into Britain, which, 
in ancient history, by its position, could not have received many living 
elephants besides that one which Cesar brought thither according to 
Polyznus, we shall, nevertheless, find these fossils in as great abun- 
dance as on the continent.” 
The great comparative anatomist clearly shows, that the bones and 
teeth of the Mammoth are distinct from those of the present living 
Indian or African Elephant. Professor Owen, in his admirable ac- 
count of the Elephas Primigenius in the history of the ‘ British Fossil 
Mammalia,’ observes: ‘“‘ The difference between the extinct and ex- 
isting species of Elephant, in regard to the structure of the teeth, 
has been more or less manifested by every specimen of fossil ele- 
phant’s tooth that I have hitherto seen from British strata, and those 
now amount to upwards of three thousand. Very few of them could 
be mistaken by a comparative anatomist for the tooth of an Asiatic 
