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confirmed by the absence of any Ossiferous Fissures, 

 at least none are recorded. 1 



Syria. Several Eaised Beaches have been noticed 

 on this coast, but I have not been able from the 

 description of them to recognise anything in the 

 shape of " Head " ; unless it be the red loam in 

 fissures and on slopes near Beyrout mentioned by 

 Sir W. Dawson. 2 That during the late Quaternary 

 period the district was inhabited by Pleistocene 

 Mammalia, is manifest from the occurrence of the 

 remains of Felis spelcea, Ursus arctos, Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus, Bison prisons, with those of Deer, Horse, 

 Wild Soar, etc., in the few bone-caves of the district. 

 Remains of Elephant and Hippopotamus have also 

 been doubtfully alluded to. 



M. Louis Lartet 3 speaks of a bone breccia with a 

 few flint flakes near Tyre, and figures a palaeolithic 

 flint implement of a type common at Abbeville found 

 near Bethlehem. Other specimens have been found 

 in Arabia Petrsea and Babylonia, but details of the 

 sites and beds are wanting. Sufficient however has 

 been made known to show that palaeolithic Man, as 

 well as the group of Pleistocene Mammalia associated 

 with his remains in Europe, have been found in 

 parts of Western Asia. 



1 Gaudry, ' Geologic de 1'Ile de Chypre : ' Mem. Soc. Geo. de 

 France, 2nd Series, vol. vii., p. 149. 



2 Egypt and Syria, p. 155 ; and Notes on Prehistoric Man in 

 Egypt and the Lebanon,' Proc. Viet. Inst. for May, 1884. 



3 Geologie de la Palestine, p. 224 et seq., Paris, and 2nd t. p. 12. 



