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mainland, and not improbably England itself to the Conti- 

 nent. The river, then flowing through the depression of 

 the Solent and the Southampton Water, occupied a much 

 higher level than now, leaving terraces along the shore at 

 various places, in which the tools of palaeolithic man have 

 been discovered. 



Though these are the best authenticated discoveries 

 connecting man with the Glacial period in England, they 

 are by no means the only probable cases. Almost every 

 valley of southern England furnishes evidence of a similar 

 but less demonstrative character. 



In Cave Deposits. 



The discovery of the remains of man in the high-level 

 river-gravels deposited near the close of the Glacial period 

 led to a revision of the evidence which had from time to 

 time been reported connecting the remains of man with 

 those of various extinct animals in cave deposits both in 

 England and upon the Continent. 



The British Isles. 



As early as 1826, Rev. J. MacEnery, a Roman Catholic 

 priest residing near Torquay, in Devonshire, England, had 

 made some most remarkable discoveries in a cavern at 

 Kent's Hole, near his home ; but, owing to his early death, 

 and to the incredulity of that generation of scientific men, 

 his story was neither credited nor published till 1859. 

 About this time, a new cave having been discovered not 

 far away, at Brixham, the best qualified members of the 

 Royal Society (Lyell, Phillips, Lubbock, Evans, Vivian, 

 Pengelly, Busk, Dawkins, and Sanford) were deputed to 

 see that it was carefully explored. Mr. Pengelly, who had 

 had twenty years' experience in similar explorations, di- 

 rected and superintended the work. Every portion of the 

 contents was examined with minutest care. Kent's Hole 



