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Ch. XLVII.l 



HIS WORKS IN- SUBAQUEOUS STRATA. 



563 



that tlie cliannel called tlie Solent had not jet been scooped 



man 



The 



gravel found at Freshwater at the west end of the Isle of 



Wifflit 



» 



the remains 



mammoth 



same 



If we ascend the Avon from Christchnrch to Salisburv 

 about 30 miles to the north, we find in gravels at various 

 heights above the river, and in old fluviatile alluvium flint 

 tools of the same Palseolithic type. One of these was taken 

 out by Dr. Blackmore from beneath the remains of a mam- 



moth 



The remains of no less 



mammali 



same nlace, the p-reatest number 



spot in Great Britain. The associated land and freshwater 

 shells belong to 31 species, and are all still living in Eno-land 



although the quadrupeds 



im 



mammoth 



a colder climate. Among 



the 



and another species 

 allied to the mar 



Norwegian lemming, the Greenland lemmino- 



family 



some 



emarked 



not. Of this last 13 individuals have 

 f the skeletons being perfect, and lyino*, 

 r. Blackmore, in the curved attitude of 

 hibernation, as may now be seen in the Blackmore Museum. 

 Besides the bones of quadrupeds, the femur and coracoid 

 bones of the wild goose {Anser pains tr is) , have been met with 

 and some egg-shells corresponding in size with the eggs of 

 the wild goose and wild duck. These shells are in part 



covered with 



incrustations 



As the wild goose 

 now resorts to arctic regions in the breeding season, the 



seems 



climate such as would have suited the lemm 



marmot 



and 



To conclude, there are three independent classes of evi- 



Ham 



the vast antiquity of Paleeolithic 



man 



First, the 



great 



denudation of the Chalk and Tertiary strata, and the im- 

 portant changes in the shape and depth of the valleys and 

 the contour of the sea-coast which have since occurred in 



^ Evans, Geol. Quart. Joiirn., p. 193, Aug. 1864. 



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