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these are found would also tend to prove that they and the shells 

 were entombed together by aqueous agency, and that they were not 

 the refuse of the repasts of a primitive race. Thus the bones were 

 perfect, and, in some instances, large portions of the skeleton were 

 together in the proper positions, not scattered and broken, as they 

 would have been had some savage been feeding on them. Unfor- 

 tunately these relics would not bear removing, but broke up into 

 small fragments as soon as they were dug out and handled. 



The facts here stated must, I think, satisfactorily prove that 

 these shells have been accumulated in the position they are now 

 found in by the cause and in the manner here assigned. This de- 

 posit is one of the latest, if not the very latest, prior to the last ele- 

 vation of this part of the South-African coast, and must have 

 immediately preceded the present order of things. Since that time 

 a gradual emergence of at least 150 feet must have taken place — 

 since the ocean- waves broke upon and wore away the sloping 

 quartzite rocks before mentioned. 



Table of Postpliocene and Recent Deposits between Port Elizabeih 

 and the Zwartkojps. 



Feet. 



Name. 



Eemarks. 



20 to 30 



Shell-deposits with bones 

 and fossil wood. 



Eaised 60 or 70 feet above 

 the present level of the 









sea. A]l the shells are 







the same as those now 







found on the South- 







African coast. 



30 to 100 



Eed clay. 





About 25 



SheU-bank at Zwartkops 



PanopcBtt, Tapes, Solen, 





Bridge. 



Mactra, &c. 



Exposed 6 



Eaised beach near the 

 Zwartkops mouth. 



All the shells broken. 



15 to 18 



Shell-bank at Ferreira's 

 Eiver. 



All the shells perfect. Lo- 

 ripes, Tapes, Cardium, 









Cerithium, &c. 



18 to 20 



Drift and gravel upon 

 which one portion of 



Angular pieces of quart- 

 zite, intermixed. 







the last shell-bank rests. 





18 



Strata at the Bight, Port 

 Elizabeth. 



Akera, Cerithium, &c. &c. 





