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ous breccia of Nice and Gibraltar. 1 It is also said 

 that there are traces of a detrital drift inland, but no 

 particulars are given. 



Similar features are observable all along the coast 

 of Algeria, with the addition of some bone-caves, but 

 one at least of these latter, although called a cave, 

 seems to have been more like an Ossiferous fissure. 

 In the red breccia, which partly filled it, besides the 

 mammalian bones, a worked flint flake was found, 

 and, in another instance, a human molar tooth. The 

 animal remains in these several caves belonged to 

 Hyaena, Rhinoceros, Felis, Ox, Antelope, &c., but the 

 species are not named ; they were however said to 

 differ from existing species. Palaeolithic flint Imple- 

 ments 2 of the ordinary type have also been met with, 

 but they were on the surface. 



Constantine, Tunis, Tripoli. No caves nor Ossifer- 

 ous fissures have, that I am aware of, been recorded 

 in these provinces ; but a breccia of uncertain rela- 

 tions, with large blocks, has been noted, together with 

 a Raised Beach. Further eastward the country is 

 described as consisting of rolling hills of Cretaceous 

 age in a sea of Quaternary drift of reddish loam 

 with a few land shells especially the Zonites Candi- 

 dissimus a species still common in the district. This 

 deposit appears to range into Tripoli and towards the 

 Lybian desert. 



There is apparently no evidence of the submergence 

 having extended in this direction beyond these limits. 



1 Desnoyers, 07?. cit., p. 383. 



2 Sir John Lubbock, Jburn. Anthrop. Inst., vol. x., p. 216. 



