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Once-fissured granite is quite common, re-compacted by invasion 

 of later granitic material. This is the fact, whether theoretically 

 possible or not. ^ ^ ^^^,^ 



SouTHWOOD, Torquay. 

 May 5, 1913. 



THE RAISED BEACHES OF TORBAY. 



Sir, — Mr. Jukes-Browne's somewhat splenetic, chiefly personal, 

 and wholly unexpected attack reminds me of the notice in the 

 American saloon: "Do not shoot the performer. He is doing his 

 best." A-S a raised-beach performer I enjoy, or once enjoyed, the 

 very small distinction of having presented to geologists the longest 

 list of shells recorded from any single British raised beach. I have 

 therefore been much interested in the subject, and have endeavoured 

 to keep myself abreast of recent discoveries. 



Mr. Jukes-Browne, so far as I know, has never done a day's work 

 on beach or raised beach. His attack is easily disposed of. To save 

 space I will employ parallel columns. 



A. J. J.-B., 1913. A. R. H., 1903. 



" Apparently he [Mr. Hunt] has not "Mr. Tiddeman's evidence of the 



realized that the whole question of the glacial age of the Raised Beaches of 



age of the raised beaches of Devon and 

 Cornwall has entered an entirely new 

 phase since the discovery that the 

 raised beach of Gower (in South 

 Wales) is older than the local glacial 

 deposits." — Geol. Mag., 1913, 

 p. 236. 



A. J. J.-B., 1913. 

 ' ' The beaches testify to a subsidence 

 which culminated either just before 

 or during the epoch of maximum 

 glaciation." — Trans. Dev. Assoc, 

 1913, p. 726. 



A. J. J.-B., 1913. 

 ' ' I have discovered what Mr. Hunt 

 meant by ... a Neolithic flint ' at 

 Hope's Nose'.'' — Geol. Mag., 1913, 

 p. 238. 



" He [Mr. Hunt] indicates three 

 lines of evidence, viz. those of flint 

 implements, MoUuscan fauna, and 

 geographical position. " — Geol. Mag. , 

 1913, p. 237. 



the Gower Peninsula has reopened 

 the whole question of the Raised 

 Beaches of the south - west of 

 England." — TRANS. Dev. Assoc, 

 1903, p. 318. 



I was present when Mr. Tiddeman 

 read his paper on September 11, 1900. 



Professor E. Hull, 1913. 

 " The chart . . . indicating [for 

 Europe and the North Atlantic] a rise 

 of 1,000 to 1,200 fathoms (6,000 to 

 7,000 feet) during the culminating 

 stage of the Glacial Period."— Proc 

 Geol. Soc, 1913, p. 88. 



A. R. H., 1904. 



" The mere fact of the discovery 

 of Neolithic flakes newer than the 

 adjacent beach atHope'sNose, Torbay, 

 maybe worth a bare record." — Geol. 

 Mag., July, 1904. 



There was nothing concealed, so 

 nothing to be discovered. 



" Geology, geography, conchology, 

 physics, palaeontology, archaeology, 

 anthropology, and evenmicro-petrology 

 [I forgot spelaeology, zoology, and 

 chemistry], all seem to incline towards 

 the conclusion," etc. — Geol. Mag., 

 1913, p. 107. 



I never referred to ' implements ' ; 

 and there are ten lines of evidence, 

 not three. 



