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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Jail. 22, 



" (b) The same (smaller) gravel, in thin laj^ers, alternating with 

 pretty thick bands of silt (a finer deposit), which are regular here, 

 and look like the recent marine and fluviatile deposits, but at (2) 

 are curved, so as to look like diluvial action, likewise there less 

 regular and not so abundant. 



Fig. 1. 



1. W 



arp. 



2. Pebbles. 



Pig. 2. 



" (c) Gravel, chiefly of chalk and flint, in small fragments, a few 

 marks of coal, some pieces of shelly lias ; bones of horse, the teeth 

 and metatarsals sound, other bones rotten. 



^'(d) Chalk, at bottom solid, with large flints at and near the top." 



In my researches on the diluvium of the Yorkshire coast (1829), 



I expressly rejected, as entii'ely without foundation, the supposition 



which had then some currency, that the forest-remains in the Holder- 



ness district were " antediluvial," like some of the forest- beds on 



