AND THE OSSEOUS BRECCIA IN FISSURES 31 



in both with violence sufficient to break and smash 

 the bones. 1 Sir H. de la Beche, speaking of the 

 osseous breccia at Oreston, remarked that some of the 

 matrix was " apparently impregnated with animal 

 matter " an observation which has been made in 

 other instances. It has also been noticed that from 

 the position in which some of the bones occasionally 

 lie, detached limbs may sometimes have been still 

 united by their ligaments when washed in. These 

 facts would indicate that the entombment was effected 

 quickly, and not long after the animal's death. 



The evidence therefore in the English area tends 

 to prove the identity of the Head with the breccia 

 in the fissures. We will now turn to the Continent, 

 and see how far this evidence is confirmed by the 

 phenomena to be observed there. 



7. PROOFS OF SUBMERGENCE ON THE CONTINENT. 



Phenomena of the same class as in England exist in 

 various other parts of Western Europe and along the 

 coasts of the Mediterranean, though they present, in 

 addition, features which, while differing in detail, bear 

 the same construction and point to the same common 

 origin, being all explicable on the hypothesis of a com- 

 paratively recent, geologically speaking, submergence 

 of the land. 



France and Belgium. On the eastern slope of 

 Cape Blanc Nez is a mass of chalk rubble overlying 



1 Where the rubble has only been carried down gentle slopes, 

 as at Upton, near Didcot, the bones are more entire. 



