1872.] 



LANE POX — PAL.^LOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS. 



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9 to 10 feet, beneath irregular seams of blue, grey, yellow, and red 

 clay-sand. 



In Section D, west of Spencer Hoad, surface 75 feet, a laj^er of 

 yellow sand, 2 feet 6 inches deep, with thin seams of red- and green- 

 coloured sand, Avere seen between subangular gravel above and below. 



Section E (fig. 3), in Lome Terrace, surface 83 feet, shows the stra- 

 tification at a spot where an unusual number of implements were dis- 



Fig. 3. — Section E, in High-terrace Gravel in Lome Terrace, 

 Myrih Road. Surface 83 feet. 



9 ft. 





' S i<>?-''J"^i'e'''^ S^i c ?'-^ " i?'^^-°i°t 



■J^^ »■* & c 



'li:^::;y^<-^y]l\:^}^^i-7]f^}\^ . • 3^ '^ 



a. Surface-soil, 6 in. h. Sand, 4 ft. 2 in. c. Gravel, 1 ft. d. Sand, 3 ft. 

 e. London Clay. 



covered. Two of these, 4 inches long and 2| inches in width, pointed, 

 and thick at the butt-end, were found close to a beam of wood, possibly 

 the trunk of a tree, portions of which being submitted to Mr. Carru- 

 thers, were pronounced by him to be pine, " and probably Pinus sylves- 

 tris, Linn., the only indigenous species." This section, as will be seen, 

 is composed chiefly of sand, with a strip of gravel 1 foot thick, at 

 about 5 feet from the surface. Close to this section was also found 

 a portion of the tooth of ElejyJias jprimigenius in the gravel, at a 

 depth of 7 feet from the surface. 



In Section F, in Chaucer Road, surface 82 feet, occurred the 

 rhizome of a fern, the depth and position of which are worthy of 

 notice ; the deposits consisted of 6 inches surface-soil, 5 feet of brown 

 brick-earth, passing gradually into fine yeUow sand without stones, 

 1 foot of gravel, 2 feet of white sand, and the London Clay, Eesting 

 on this London Clay was found the piece of wood exhibited, which 

 Mr. Carnithers has been so kind as to identify for me as the rhizome 

 of one of our indigenous ferns, either the Lastrcea Jilix mas, Linn., 

 or the Osmunda regalis, Linn. One of the fronds, or a portion of the 



