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was reversed and converted into one of elevation. (Raised beaches ; 
arctic shell clays. 
(30.) That this upheaval again joined Britain to a continent. 
(31.) That glaciers during this stage continued to fill the 
mountain-valleys of Great Britain and Ireland. oa nes. ) 
(32.) That in those turbaries and deposits, which can be clearly 
shown to be of more recent date than this last extension of the 
glaciers in Britain and the continent, the human relics obtained 
belong either to the Neolithic period or to still oe recent times, 
and that these relics are never accompanied by the remains 0 
hippopotamus, rhinoceros, or any of the han pee of mam- 
malia, 
(33.) That the climate of Britain during the period of local 
glaciers was suited to the wants of arctic mammalia, and perhaps 
the mammoth and Siberian rhinoceros may have survived to this 
time. 
(34.) That as the cold decreased, Britain became densely 
wooded,—the climate then resembling probably that of Canada 
before her cahgee were thinned. (aeganate) ; Bos primigenius ; 
B. ie 5 ons, 
(35.) That "ere hue Britain became pee and the sea 
as to a greater height than its present lev 
(36.) That finally the sea retired, and the Biches order of things 
obtained. 
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West ‘Indies during the winter of 1868-9. He gives much new 
information with regard to the geology and mineralogy of the 
ae islands, and closes with the following summary ° 
the fa 
From the account given above it is seen that the oldest rocks of 
ve West Indies do not contain fossils, and are, on that account, of 
nown geological age. ey occur in Trinidad, and are 
called the Caribbean series. They extend farther to the west in 
the northern part of South America. It seems Mote uncertain 
whether this series occurs in the other West India is 
The oldest fossiliferous separ? hel the West fndiat a enipales 
belong to the Cretaceous format 
The Cretaceous formation i is spade in Trinidad, Jamaica and 
One Trigonia resembling 7. Boussé vipers is found in the “0 ie 
Parian,” and this circumstance seems to indicate that, the time tor 
the deposit of those beds is about the Neocomian period. 
