230 Scientific Intelligence. 
that no paleolithic bed can be shown to belong to a more 
recent date than the mild era which preceded the last great sub- 
Searles V. Wood, 
his upper glacial deposits, with the lower glacial beds and till of 
Scotland and the northwestern districts of England. Even the 
general submergence of the eastern districts he assigns to another 
and a far earlier date than that of the Welsh area; and, indeed, 
e finds room for the whole of the denudation of the glacial 
no doubt pardon those who are not prepared at once to accept 
them. In the mean time we must rest content with knowing that, 
so far as the paleolithic deposits of the east of England are con- 
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aring beds repose on a trough cut out in the upper glacia 
peas which itself rests on middle glacial sands and gravels. 
_ Again, near Brandon, some of the higher gravels containing the 
implements show a very large percentage of the quartzite pebbles 
g beds were deposited, and to a time when the old "see 
ttom had been long enough converted into dry land for it to 
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