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me to Endsleigh Street for the purpose of securing some of tlie clay 

 in whieli the bones had been embedded, in the hope of discovering 

 in it evidences of the contemporaneous flora. 



From that time to May 23rd I regularly visited the excavations 

 as they were being made in this and the adjoining roadways, and, 

 thanks to the kindness of Mr. Neave, I have been able to record 

 carefully the facts obtained, and also to secure all the bones which 

 have been found. Fortunately very little of the main sewer had 

 been completed when I first visited the excavations, and as at 

 those points the connecting- drains from the houses had still to be 

 joined on to the main sewer these smaller excavations enabled me 

 personally to record even there the nature of the deposits, to 

 within a very few feet of the depth touched in laying the main 

 sewer. 



Up to the present time the excavations have been carried along 

 the southern side of Endsleigh Gardens (Euston Square), Upper 

 "Woburn Place, the eastern and southern sides of Tavistock Square, 

 the southern and western sides of Gordon Square, Gordon Street, 

 and Endsleigh Street. The foregoing are all the thoroughfares 

 included in the ' first contract,' but I understand that it is the inten- 

 tion of the St. Pancras Yestry, who are carrying out the work, to 

 make new sewers also in Taviton Street, and along the northern 

 and eastern sides of Gordon Square, and the northern and 

 western sides of Tavistock Square, so that the whole of the area 

 included within the boundaries referred to above may be drained at 

 the same depth. 



§ 2. Endsleigh Street. 



This thoroughfare extends from Endsleigh Gardens to Tavistock 

 Square in a direction from ^N'.N.W. to S.S,E. At the northern end 

 it is 80 feet above Ordnance datum and at the southern end 81, so 

 that at present the fall is slightly towards Euston Square. It will 

 be seen farther on that there is a much more decided fall in the 

 underlying surface of London Clay in the same direction, there- 

 fore the present inclination of the surface follows in- the main that 

 which was marked out before the overlying deposits had been 

 accumulated. The sewer in this street w^as carried down to a 

 depth of about 25 feet, and though it was, in part, laid in tunnels, 

 the excavations open to the surface were so extensive that it was 

 quite easy to make out the features of the surface of London Clay 

 below the newer deposits. 



The section on the following page (fig. 1, II. on the Map) shows 

 that there is a fall in this surface of no less than 6 feet from the 

 southern to the northern end of the street, i. e. to where the Mam- 

 moth tusks were found. Except in the neighbourhood of the old 

 sewer, which at the lowest part of the invert reached to a depth of 

 12 feet, the ' made ' or disturbed ground extended only to a depth 

 of from 5 to 6 feet ; under this was found about 2 feet of a dark 

 loamy clay which rested on a yellowish- brown clay, and sometimes 



