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Kev. W. V. Vernon 07i a Discovery 



the south-western side of the Wolds. Two hundred yards to 

 the south the red marl appears where a few feet of gravel are 

 removed, and it is cut into by the Market Weighton canal a 

 mile to the west. The section which the pit displayed was 

 thus drawn by Mr. Phillips. 



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1. Black sand 9 



2. Yellow sand 1 6 



3. White gravel consisting of small pebbles of chalk 



and angular fragments of flint, with a few pieces 

 of Gryphaea incurva, and fewer pebbles of sand- 

 stone 2 6 



4. Blue marl irregulai'ly penetrated by the gravel, 



No. 3, and partially chequered by it 5 



5. Commencement of a blacker marl. 



The lower part of the excavation was now concealed by 

 water ; but the black marl had been dug ten feet deeper : and in 

 this the farmer, by whose intelligence the bones were preserved, 

 informed us the greater part of them were found. The liorns 

 of the ox and the jaws of the Felis lay near the bottom of the 

 excavation ; the horn of the stag, the thigh-bone of the ele- 

 phant, and one of the leg-bones of the rhinoceros, lay low in 

 the upper marl: they occupied a space of about twenty yards 

 in length and eight in width. The pit has been worked two 

 years, and a single bone had been noticed in 1828; the rest 

 were dug out during the present summer. 



On examining the black marl which lay in heaps upon the 

 ground, we found it full of shells, and of remains of decayed 

 plants too indistinct to be made out. Many specimens of the 

 shells were collected, and consigned to Mr. Phillips for inves- 

 tigation. He found them to include land, marsh, and fresh- 

 water species ; but the Lymna>a and Planorbis were most 

 abundant, and of every size from the most minute to the hill- 



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