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FOSXKR AND XOPLMY — -MEDWAY GRAVELS. 



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pipes in the Ragstone at Boughton, near Maidstone. Dr. Fitton * 

 describes tliem as " irregular fissures or cavities, approaching to a 



conical figure called ' vents ' by the workmen, filled with 



loose rubbly stone and sandy clay." Sir R. I. Murchison, who 

 visited the place with Dr.. Buckland, says f, " the bones had been 

 preserved under a copious accumiilation of impervious loam and clay." 

 Prof. Morris has also noticed these remains +. Mr. W. Boyd Daw- 

 kins has favoured us with the following list of the bones found at 

 Boughton, and deposited in the Society's Museum, and described as 

 from a cavern : — 



Hyfena, mentioned by all the authors identified as U. spelcea bj Mr. Dawkins. 



Wolf. 



Fox. j-Prof. Morris. 



Water-rat I 



Young Rodent's jaw. 

 Cerincs elaphus. 

 Ehinoceros tichorhinus ? 

 Equus. 



Mr. Dawkins. 



5. Disturhances in the Gravel. — Attention has frequently been 

 drawn to the occurrence of faults and contortions in superficial de- 

 Fig. 6. — Section of a Brick-earth pit, near Hadlow. 



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pebbles and angular pieces of 

 Chert. 



d. Fine gravel and coarse sand, with 

 a little coarse gravel. 



e. Brick-earth. 



a. Shaly Weald Clay. 



h. Sandy Brick-earth. 



c. Gravel, consistingchiefly of pebbles 

 of Wealden sandstone, but con- 

 taining also numerous Tertiary 



posits."' •- Many instances have been quoted by Sir Charles Lyell§, 

 Mr. Trimmer ||, and more recently by our colleague Mr. Green ^. 



* Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd series, vol. iv. (18.36), p. 132. 

 t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. (18.^1), p. 383. 

 + Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. ix. (1836), p. 595. 



§ Phil. Mag. New Series, vol. xvi. 1840, p. 345, and Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. iii. 

 1840, p. 171 ; also 'Antiquity of Man,' 1863, chapts. 12. and 17. 

 II Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc'. vol. vii. (1851), pp. 22-30. 

 \ Mem. Geol. Survey. Sheet 45 (1864), p. 55. 



