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the mammoth and a species of rhinoceros. Upon direct- 

 ing special attention to the subject, it was found that, at 

 various intervals, the remains of man, also, had been re- 

 ported from the same deposits. As long ago as 1715 Mr. 

 Conyers discovered a palaeolithic implement, in connection 

 with the skeleton of an elephant, at Black Mary's, near 

 Gray's Inn Lane, London. This implement is preserved 

 in the British Museum, and closely resembles tyjoical speci- 

 mens from the gravel at Amiens. Other implements of 

 similar character have been found in the valley of the 

 Wey near Guilford, also in the valley of the Darent, near 

 Whitstable in Kent, and between Heme Bay and the Re- 

 culvers. While the exact position of these implements in 

 the gravel had not been so positively noted as in the case 

 of those found at Amiens and Abbeville, there can be little 

 doubt that man, in company with the extinct animals 

 mentioned, inhabited the valley of the Thames at a period 

 when its annual floods spread over the whole terrace-plain 

 upon which the main part of London is built. 



In the valley of the Ouse, however, near Bedford, the 

 discovery of palaeolithic implements in the gravel terraces 

 connected with the Glacial period and in intimate associa- 

 tion with bones of the ele]3hant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, 

 and other extinct animals, has been as fully established as 

 in the valley of the Somme. The discoveries here were 

 first made in the year 1860, by Mr. James Wyatt, in a 

 gravel-pit at Biddenham, two miles northwest of Bedford. 

 Two flint implements were thrown out by workmen in one 

 day from undisturbed strata thirteen feet below the sur- 

 face, and numerous other specimens have since been found 

 in a similar situation. 



The valley of the Ouse is bordered on either side by 

 sections of a superficial blanket of glacial drift containing 

 many transported boulders of considerable size. The val- 

 ley is here about two miles wide, and ninety feet deep. 

 The gravel deposit, however, in which the implements 



