CORNISH POST -TERTIARY GEOLOGY. 47 



" Bones of Euminantia, chiefly cervine, are common ; numerous 

 specimens have been obtained, amongst other localities, from Whit- 

 sand Bay (in East Cornwall) ; a few to the east of Looe ; at 

 Talland ; from Polperro Beach ; Lantivet Bay (near Fowey) ; and 

 from Marazion Beach ; but principally from Carnon and Pentuan.' 



" Mr. Couch - mentions the discovery of the skeleton of a large 

 deer near an oak (20 feet in length, and of the circumference of a 

 man's waist), at 30 feet from the surface, near Villendi'eath, in the 

 parish of Sennen ; also of pieces of deers' and elks' horns at 20 feet 

 below the surface in Sennen Bay." 



Mr. Hetiwood^ noticed the respective positions of the human 

 remains found at Carnon and Pentuan. 



Mr. Couch considered the human skulls unlike those of any of 

 the European races of the present day in their configuration. 



In the old river deposits of the valley to the West of St. Austell, 

 remains of Diatomacece and freshwater shells were found in silt ; 

 and in the marine deposits beneath, sea shells, such as Cardium 

 ednle, of a large size and of a configuration very different from those 

 now inhabitino- the same shores. 



KECENT MARINE AND FLUVIATILE DEPOSITS. 



To particularize the events denoted by the deposits overlying the 

 forest bed in stream-tin sections is unnecessary, as they involve the 

 reiteration of estuarine, turbary, or fluviatile conditions, dependent 

 on the situation of the section with reference to the sea, and the 

 recurrence of local stoppages or diversions of drainage, etc. 



Some care is necessary in distinguishing the forest bed proper 

 from the peat beds so often intercalated with more recent estuarine 

 or fluviatile deposits. These peat beds show that a decreased rain- 

 fall had brought about the more moderate fluviatile conditions of the 



Trans. Roy. Geol. Soc. Corn. vol. vii. pp. 233, 264, etc. « Ibid. 



Journ. Roy. Instit. Corn. vol. iv. 



