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Chlannels, and we do not know how much the Molluscan assemblage 

 in the Channel waters was affected by the cold of the Glacial Period. 

 If I am right in believing that the Straits of Dover did not exist at 

 the time when the raised beaches were formed, and that the Channel 

 Sea was then a gulf opening westward, it is probable that the 

 temperature of the water was never very much lowered, and that 

 its fauna underwent very little change from early Pleistocene time 

 to the present day. 



With regard to Mr. Hunt's geographical facts, I quite fail to see 

 their bearing or why a beach at Hope's Nose should " represent a very 

 mucli later stage of coast erosion " than one at Portland Bill. 



The matter stands thus : It is not a case of all the available 

 evidence tending to show that I did not know what I was writing 

 about ; the geological facts are as I have stated above, and if 

 Mr. Hunt declines to accept the inferences that other people have 

 drawn from them, he will have to adduce much more definite and 

 cogent reasons for his disbelief. It will certainly take all he can get 

 out of "geography, conchology, ph5'sics, palaeontology, archaeology, 

 anthropology, and micro-petrology" to upset the geological evidence ! 



In 1905 he had to admit that he had completely misunderstood one 

 important particular in Messrs. Wright & Muff's (Maufe's) account 

 of the Cork raised beach, and it now looks as if he had quite failed to 

 realize its bearings in another direction. a t t -d 



° A. J. JuKES-JiROWNE. 



P.S. — Since writing the above I have discovered what Mr. Hunt 

 meant by his reference to a Neolithic flint " at Mbpe^s Nose ". It is 

 recorded in one of his own papers,^ and, as I suspected, it was not 

 found in the beach itself. His words are : "I noticed a flint flake 

 jutting out of a stratum of landwash at the top of the little cliff just 

 east of the Hope's Nose beach. It was about two feet below the 

 surface. With it there were three other fragments and two littorina 

 shells. I sent the flake with one of the smaller pieces to Sir John 

 Evans, K.C.B., who replied : ' Both the enclosed seem to be artificially 

 made flakes probably of Neolithic date.' As there are some flints in 

 the raised beach, it seems possible that these flakes were made on the 

 spot." It is evident, therefore, that Mr. Hunt knew that the flint 

 was only a flake, and that it did not occur in the material of the beach 

 but in landwash above it ; yet he blandly quotes its occurrence as an 

 argument against the early Pleistocene age of the beach ! It will 

 be interesting to learn what explanation Mr. Hunt has to offer. 



A. J. J.-B. 



Westleigh, Ash Hill Road, Torquay. 



AGE OF RAISED BEACHES. 

 Sir, — In an ingenious classification of the Raised Beaches and 

 associated deposits of the South and West of England, Mr. H. Dewey 

 (Geol. Mag., April, 1913, pp. 154-63) refers to similar beaches in the 

 South of Ireland and brings them within his scheme. By a round- 

 about argument from their hypothetical relationship to the Thames 

 ' Trans. Devon Assoc, vol. xxxvi, p. 47-5, 1905. 



