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Ch. XLVII.l HIS WORKS IN SUBAQUEOUS STEATA. 



561 



last tour years^ attests perhaps m a more striking manner the 

 antiquity of pre-historic man in Europe than any other monu- 

 ment of the earlier Stone age yet discovered. The great bed 

 of gravel resting on Eocene Tertiary strata in which these 

 implements have been found, consists in most places of half- 

 angular chalk-flints, mixed with rounded 



rolled or semi 



pebbles washed out of the Tertiary strata. But this drift, 

 although often continuous over wide areas, is not everywhere 

 present, nor does it always present the same characters. The 



mplements 



in it were discovered mid- way 



Mr. James 



May 1864, included in 



gravel from 8 to 12 

 feet thick, capping a cliff which at its greatest height is 35 

 feet above high-water mark. I have visited this spot, which 



Messrs 



The flint-tools 



emble 



found at Abbeville 



and Amiens in France, being some of them of the oval, and 

 others of the lanceolate form. Many of them exhibit the 

 same colours and ochreous stain as do the flints in the gravel 



these implements, from 

 seen in the Blackmore 



in which they lay. A fine series of 

 the Hampshire cliffs, may now be 

 Museum at Salisbury. 



In the gravel capping the cliffs alluded to are blocks of 

 sandstone of various sizes, some of enormous dimensions. 



more than 20 feet in circumference and from 



feet 



thick. They have probably not travelled far, being a portion 



denudation. Neverthele, 

 stone imDlements became 



ta which have suffered much 

 explain how they and the 



must have recourse to ice, which may 

 to them in winter, so as to ofive them 



and enable rivers or the sea to t] 

 distances from their original site. 



them 



slight 



An extreme climate, 

 causing a vast accumulation of snow during a cold winter 

 and great annual floods when this snow was suddenlv melted 



may 



masses 



and the spreading over the ancient surface of the flintj 

 material originally dispersed in layers through the soft chalk 



VOL. II. 







