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and stationary, and that it was the waters that were 

 in movement and rising. 



The evidence of the Organic Remains is to the 

 same effect. The old River-drifts such as those of the 

 Thames Valley, and some older detrital beds, such as 

 the Red Crag of Suffolk, occasionally contain the bones 

 of animals, which, if sometimes whole, are generally 

 rolled and worn, though not gnawed. Animal remains 

 are also common in caves of the same age as the 

 River-drifts, but these are broken and gnawed, show- 

 ing them to have been carried there to be devoured by 

 predaceous animals. Sometimes the long bones have 

 been brought in by Palaeolithic Man, in which case 

 they are generally split longitudinally for the purpose 

 of getting at the marrow. Such are the conditions 

 of the bones in the deposits of which the origin is 

 known. 



On the other hand, the bones found in the Osseous 

 Rubble, the Head, and Ossiferous Fissures, are in- 

 variably not merely broken but mostly splintered 

 into hundreds of fragments, which, as a rule, retain 

 their sharp angles. They are neither weathered, worn, 

 nor gnawed. This condition therefore is in direct 

 discordance with that which obtains in the other 

 known Drifts. The agency, whatsoever it was, must 

 have acted with sufficient violence to smash the bones, 

 but without the prolonged action which would have 

 worn them. Such a result might well have ensued from 

 the successive falls of masses of rubble over the old 

 cliffs or into deep fissures, as would happen whenever 

 the uplift was rapid enough to give rise to a strong 



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