habited by a succession of tenants, and have been se- | 
man, as a lace not only of domicile, but of 
lso served as the 
rivers 
which | o 
may | 
a 
abundance of flint implements (some which are 
whitewash. (The 
Compound. had been 
of 
laid bes M md * ring à yc ail visit to Ami ien 
d X e 
vd disc 9 in > ih gravel-pits of St. Acheul— 
ne at the depth of 10, and the other of ig 1 below b 
p 
A second premium 
rze 
ay awari 
E. 
t oletin a 
B. 
Son, of Berkham ste, f a 
la 
of m Let an 
ror 1 i eg Races, of | g 
Aare 
r of the x rd 
man 
extreme, „To escape 
| ing 
his o 
iei ie a 
of 1S 
e tie TE 
atified gravel taitióg ines 
hic h these rudely fashioned € 
belongs to the 
and land 2 which accompany "dn m being o 
post 
uried | a 
a fresh- Miren 
- 
D ecies, eat number of the fossil i 
3 ivo beet hets iussa, | 
es is tr rful. Ay re than a thousa 
ve 10 d drainage of (dE jm 
chan es in the dete 
s whole physical geography of the 
and, in short, the 
edg onde: 
of n roca ‘realy been met with in the last ten 
years, in the y of the Somme, in an area 15 miles 
Th whom the 
that would alone imply a remote antiquity for the 
infer 
poe in 
H adian Mound, 
use of i iron was unknown, made a fondi 
and I am depo of a large 
was old en ough to have co-existed, at least, the 
mammoth. But, the course of Mis last | 
have been à in | 
— 
z 
8 8 
8 
et 
of | throug 
Lang PUER a 
n Georgia—a 
avera ht 
ich bi saw in Ne ond's Island, 
h ge heig 
dud or 
and 
whi 
mound 10 acr 
nd | ripe 
this | ver 
produce s — Mame bunc nad i 
vola t appeared me 
er, the Bake or tlie sea nd, 
First, so long ago as the yea a E 
should leere sweep 
ieh is at ha 
away, and aft the contents of > 
ie ive nishabl therefrom wi 
Hamar rgh ar po) Ashbri va à 
w 
as the 1544, M. 
eminent i paleontologist and antiquary, pated s an 
d, analogous ac 
an w rk unmixed pe erhap: 
France of portion two human skeletons (ihe 1 
skulls, teeth, and LAN imbedded in a volcanic 
in m mountain of Denise, 
u Vela ay, a breccia anterior in date 
to one, at least, of Ine ps st eruptions of that volcanic 
side 
in the | Abbe 
I believe the uity 
P ER Ha 
. Although the rag eme siens are 
cies, ve S 
deed if compared to the times of istry or Editio 
I consider the gravel to _be of fluviatile origin; but 1 
mourtain. e same 
remains of 
ysmal iiim. nothing that might not 
8 catacl 
aeneis in 
mu 
be due to such river-floods as We have w 
Scotland during the last half century. 
£4} 
t have | v 
hall + h 
their own qe the e bier gt ecimen 
um of tha Among othe 
n E hal 
w . supplied the broken flints for the formation of so 
h gravel at various heights, sometimes 100 feet 
iios ve the present level of the Somme, for the depo- 
sition of fine sediment including entire shells, both 
Gers and aquatic, PE Reny for the denudation 
m the entire mass of stratified drift has 
e, 8 having men swept away, t 
remai s of it often terminates abruptly in old 
n 
ca 
1 er- 
at 
skinne d, 
nown 
river-cliff: en 
a, 
r drift. . To explain these i emis d should infer con- 
called Tool. "Mr. Lane Le i 
which, believ e, essentially 
at by MM MM. Hebe rt and Lartet, | 
-— — that arrived 
na 
well known to science, who have also this ye 
may thus be stated. 
E 
gone are H no means prepared ‘to maintain that the 
ear | ele 
Bae, [deinde Pa wholly: 8 . course ne, the 
ancient rivers. Lastly, the disappearance of the 
uld be Son: atl ohan oA hoped othe 
wid be obtained i meet the U 
the Soci el 
rmine 
ir general nomen 
3: 
ephant, rhinoceros, and other genera of q 
now foreign to Europe implies, in like manner, a vast 
was never seen in situ by any scientific observer) is a 
fabrication. On. the contrary, we incline to believe 
rom the same hill w 
causes in their | gel matriz, 
hey are entombed consists of two part of which 
s s compact, and for "the most Del thinly "laminated 
re really imbedded by natural 
1 — ee in which 
lapse of agen Brie. the era in which the fossil 
l e framed and that of the invasion of 
Section. 
(To be continued.) 
PP ch POMOLOGICAL : Sept 22. —Mr. Hogg in the 
air. Twelve new 
“OF Sp = ey eire 3 collection was contributed 
Keele Hall, Stafford 
l by the Piane Sir Chas. Lyell in the Geological |! 
in 
elakare. 
‘Amon apes not a in com 
premiums the fo owing w 
Fro 
ii 
B 
very different in this respect 
— side branchlets be. i * 
n that it appears 
oral, vextren ely lar, pn 
ls Lon dedi; xod T " 
nd f 
rne. into kien p hed the hum: 
ning the bones is a ee and much 
ile, comprising ag fo ‘How wo varieties 
ngos 
k ivr in ry few, 
Musca 
ries ve i huge; White 
uite 1 berr 
dI ado — — ne rover 
x: M that this more s porous s which 
bles colour and composition, 
ficorh E in structure, n o E the genuine old 
breccia of Denise, may be made up of the older rock 
e Monae me very ripe; Royal ee no = Muscat 
mos 
; Chasselas 
enea 
Hátive 
Museat v 
hm — this, like sf * ipn p 
of the French, cadi 
but Mr. Hill ‘reports 5 the nc Cech w was ‘very cam 
much * 4 ar i 
o M 5 fio ; 
2 5 2 to - gw; r^ van a ab Al vinous. Tis 
artifici ial hea’ W. e wee 
say remané, and, therefore, of mueh newer date, an 
UE which well deserves consideration; but I feel 
À dev nter resent, so mt of the precise cir- | 
ignorant 
t 8 which — ve = — | 
8 "uie of i 
— 
e 
But, 
es evden 
of the remote origin fain the hum 
ble of he Puy, 1 am fu ually pre epared to corro oborate 
riety for walls in th 
The bunch is ym well- aner ed, rather thin in 
berries, which are medinm sized, round, very sweet, 
and solid in flesh; Gold n Hamburgh, over-ripe, but 
ei and tender in fle sh; Sahibee: this was a lar: 
l-shouldered bunch, but the oval "berries are ihin i 
Met atery, an 
and deficient. in saccharine TUE: 
eae exists regarding the Tok 
that, at a later Meeting 
see . will be — dl aera end 
-bune ed, shouldered, o a ange 
thick- denned very sweet, and s gu fleshed ; Ede 
Hamburg e us sl e; ; Bidwell Seedling not 
3 ripe; 2 QU fleshed, very 
ood 
g the autumn, they 
, TO! 
prem. wo years , and ful 
maintains the opin E más yn 
ably tender, very sweet, a 
wen n the 
nd leaves a most agreea| 
e palat Sas Ki bunch exhibited, how. 
fess "ans by m. [i natia — regar rd to 
of the flint imp 
an 
Abbevi 
assigned to them by M, Boucher de Rage in 
vi 
ere first 
noticed at qnis ph their true geo logical position | ab 
1849, (a 
ellent in ferons The 
Ve were 8 . ripened, excepting those 
i. ao Celtiques,” while 
i ere afterwards d 
zollot. 
er you to the 
ne, well. a based } 4 
dis pl ayi ng well the: peculiarities of t tive 
varieties. All the Grap es in this collection wane „how. 
Socie 
ion formed ofit: the — is — | 
the 
respect to Más t from 
are oval was 
end both varie 
did not appear g 
worthy of cultivation, ex 
st meeting, i 
ssh formed like t e Whi 
roundand of a pale-yellow e 
the Chasselas Musqué; bu 
that v 
ever bein able to 
on the p m hand tha tha Lo 
eme mir a qe 
> fi e 
he Proeeedings of the Royal "wii for 1859, 
only 'to add that I have myself obtained | 
that they 
liad been syringed with somethi whi 
Ah ring ething w ch 
From H 
taste as if impregnated with highly-sized 
(collection of seven kinds, 
