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As the whole question thus turns on stratigraphical affinity, not 

 upon a certain similarity in detail, it can hardly be doubted, I 

 think, that the position of these Endsleigh Street beds is one in 

 which river-drift would naturally be expected, and where the 

 representatives of beds which exist 5 miles away, and 200 feet 

 above the sea, certainly would not be. And this conclusion, that 

 they should be classed as river-drift, has also the advantage of 

 being in accord with the fossil mammalian evidence. For an old 

 river-terrace, south of Evston Square, with a height of 70 to 80 

 feet above the sea, may well be nearly equivalent to another at 

 Ilford, 9 miles lower down the river, at a height of 40 to 50 feet. 

 And both in the Endsleigh Street district and at Ilford the remains 

 of the mammoth have been found, together with those of the red 

 deer and horse. But of course the Ilford pits, which cover many 

 acres of ground and have been worked over during many years, have 

 yielded many other mammals in addition. 



I trust, therefore, that Dr. Hicks will think that some reasons, 

 at least, have been given here which should cause him to reconsider 

 the conclusions to which he at present inclines as to the strati- 

 graphical affinities of these Endsleigh Street beds. For my own 

 part I would unhesitatingly class them as river-drift of the Thames 

 Valley system, and consequently as post-Glacial in the sense of 

 being of later date than the Boulder Clay of Essex and Middlesex. 



[For the Discussion on this paper, see p. 460.] 



