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Compton, and pieces of Permian wood ; and when the Jephson gar- 

 dens were being made at the latter town, several fine remains of 

 Elephant, Ehinoceros, and other mammalia were obtained, some of 

 which are now deposited in the Warwick Mnsenm. I believe some 

 land- and freshwater shells were also procured ; but I am not aware 

 that any particular account has been given of them, or that any notice 

 was taken of them at the time. Similar mammalian remains were 

 found at Lawford, near Eugby, especially a fine jaw with teeth of BJii- 

 noceros ticJiorhinus, now in the Museum at Warwick, and were de- 

 scribed by Dr.Bucldand ; but the pits have been closed for some years. 

 Of older date than the above, belonging probably to the glacial 

 period *, is a very extensive deposit of Drift, of which, however, I can 

 now describe only a very small portion in a district occupying the 

 higher tableland on which are situated the villages of Hazeley, Hatton, 

 Edstone, Eemington, and Temple Balsall, from six to twelve miles 

 north, north-west, and west of Warwick f. Eounded pebbles and 

 boulders of various sizes and diverse mineral composition are scattered 

 in greater or less abundance over the whole of this tract. Occasion- 

 ally large rounded boulders of sandstone and other rocks are met with, 

 but in general the pebbles are of small size, consisting mostly of 

 sandstones and quartz, large pieces of which sometimes occur ; and 

 here and there a few square blocks of hard stone may be observed. 

 Granite is comparatively rare. Ehnts are nowhere absent from 

 this Drift, though much more abundant in some places than others, 

 -as, for instance, at Hazeley, Hatton, and Edstone, where they largely 

 predominate, some being of large size and Little rounded ; but the 

 most remarkable quantity, both as to size and number, is at Hazeley 

 and Hatton, where masses of large unrolled flints occur, looking as 

 fresh as if they had lately come from a chalk-pit, and some fields 

 5'ield flints in abundance. The only conceivable means of conveyance 

 for these must be icebergs, unless it be conceded that the Cretaceous 

 formation had a much further extension to the north, spreading 

 over a considerable portion of the midland counties — an idea which 

 the very remarkable and considerable mass of Chalk and Green- 

 sand which was observed in the Drift overlying the Lias at Campden, 

 in Gloucestershire, might seem to favour. Small pieces of chalk: are 

 now and then, but more rarely, met with. One striking exception 

 came under my notice in a small field at Eowington, where little 

 bits of very hard chalk, rounded and scratched, are scattered over it 

 so plentifully that they gave a white aspect to the land. Inter- 

 spersed with them were flints, some Greensand with Pectens, a brown 

 sandy stone with Ostrea, Great Oolite, Cornbrash, Eorest Marble, and 

 several square fragments of Lias, chert with shells from the Moun- 



* It is possible that this Drift may be re-deposited glacial Drift, and, if so, 

 would perhaps be " high-level Drift ;" but I confess my impression, from the 

 facts observed, is, that it is true glacial Drift, and therefore older. 



t It certainly extends as far as Birmingham on the north-west ; for I have 

 noticed Lower Silurian pebbles at Saltley, close to the town. It caps the Lias 

 at Wainlode Cliff near G-loucester, and is widely spread over other portions 

 of Warwickshire (as at Grafton, &c., west of Stratford), Worcestershire, and 

 Oxfordshire. 



