168 Miscellanies. 
2dly, The broken and rolled state of the greater part of the 
bones, the pebbles, and the conglomeritic character of many of the 
deposits, prove that the strata were formed in the bed of a ica 
an estuary. 
3dly, It is equally obvious, aa the Hastings, or Tilgate strata, 
must have been formed and consolidated before the chalk, which 
rests upon and once covered them, was deposited. It follows, that 
after the Hastings’ beds were formed, they must have been sub- 
merged beneath the ocean which deposited the chalk formation ; for 
the latter, as we shall presently shew, contains nothing but marine re- 
mains, and not one fossil of the Hastings’ beds. 
4thly, The ocean of the chalk, in its turn, must have passed away, 
and the consolidated chalk have been covered by the waters which 
deposited the tertiary strata, for the latter contain fossils entirely ~ 
tinet from those of the chalk. 
, The tertiary, in common with the chalk and Hastings’ bd 
must have been subsequently broken up, probably by volcanic agen- 
cy, and the wealds of Kent and Sussex formed, and the chalk dislo- 
cated and separated, by the upheaving of the central strata of the 
Hastings’ formation : the lateral fissures in the chalk now constituting 
the vallies, through which the existing rivers flow, and effect the 
drainage of the country. ‘To this epoch may probably also be ain 
red the formation of the beds of diluvium. ai 
Case III.—With but few exceptions, the fossils in this Case aA 
not from Sussex. 
- Shelf 1. Teeth of Elephants, from the diiuvial beds forming te 
cliffs at Brighton and Rottingdean: horns of Aurochs, fragments of 
the antlers of the fossil Elk of Ireland, &c. 
2. Tusks of elephants, horns of buffaloes and aurochs, &c. from 
Walton, in Essex, presented by G. B. Greenough, Esq. seara 
bone, (scapula,) of a Mammoth, from North America. 
3. and 4. Teeth and bones of mammoths, rhinoceroses, croco- 
diles, plates of turtles, fossil vegetables, &e. from the diluvial plains 
forming the banks of the Irawadi river, two hundred miles below AV4% 
in the Burmese Empire. Collected and presented by J. Craufurd, 
Esq. F.R.S. 
5. Remains of Iehthyosauri, from Lyme Regis; skull of the ex- 
tinct fossil bear, (Ursus speleus,) from the caverns of Kaphearaes 
bones in limestone, from Gibraltar - ; tooth of a mammoth, Sibe- 
ie &c 
