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of these are of Pleistocene age, and belong to a period of partial 
submergence of the Nile Valley. Flint implements had be 
alleged to be found in these gravels, but there seemed to be no 
good evidence to prove that they are other than the chips broken 
by mechanical violence in the removal of the gravel by torrential 
action. In the Lebanon, numerous caverns exist. ese were 
divided into two classes, with reference to their origin; some 
being water-caves or tunnels of tabula go rivers, others sea- 
caves, excavated by the waves when the country was at a side 
level than at present. Both kinds have eck occupied b n, 
and some of them undoubtedly at atime anterior to the aisiods 
cian occupation of the country, and even at a time when the ani- 
mal inhabitants and geographical features of a Ligeti were differ- 
ent from those of the present day. They were thus of various 
ages, ranging from the post-Glacial or Aneavian period to the 
time of the Phenician occupation. Speaking as a geologist, from 
a purely geological point of view, and from a thorough exami- 
nation of the country around, there was no doubt but what there 
was conclusive evidence that between the wa of the first oceu- 
pation of these caves by men—and they were men of a splendid 
physique—and the appearance of the early Pen isiani inhabitants ~ 
of the land, there had been a vast submergence of land, and a 
ih catastrophe, aye a stupendous one, in which even the cota 
ranean had been altered fron a small sea to its present siz 
illustration of this, the caverns at the Pass of Nahr-el-Kelb and at 
nt Elias were described in some detai 1, and also, in connection 
were probably of much less antiquity than those of the more 
ancient caverns. Dr. Dawson’s address was illustrated by flint 
hp ees and bones collected by him during his recent tour in 
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Neel ok Support to its bibets, are invited to send their names 
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