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by him, one of which was covered with white patina, and three 
months later (on a second visit), sold me an elephant’s tooth 
at the quarry (for 2 francs). Another laborer at the Chemin 
de Poste quarry sold me (for 4 francs) four chipped specimens 
(2 patinated), and again, three months later, 8 (for 5 francs) 
found by him, he said, in the * Limon rouge " at the spots in- 
dicated (see photograph, figure 1). At the Boulevard quarry 
at St. Acheul, I bought of a third workman, at least a dozen 
broken “axes” and chips, some of them well patinated, 
together with the bones of a Bos primiginius (for 5 frances)! A 
ourth quarryman, at Chelles, where two tables in the fore- 
man’s shed were piled with “axes” and the teeth and bones 
of the Rhinoceros tichorinus, Elephas primiginius, Equus 
caballus and Reindeer recently found, it was said, and reserved 
as the property of the company; sold me at his house a num- 
‘ber of patinated chips and “coups de poing," together with 
three teeth of the Equus caballus (for 5 francs). 
Nothing so distinguishes the Delaware from the Somme 
Valleys; nothing so eliminates, from the study of the latter, 
the doubts as to readjustments and talus, the possibilities as to 
river levels and distant glaciers, which perplex the American 
| investigator, as the presence of these fossils, thus luckily pre- 
served by the chalk, and in sufficient numbers, it seems, to 
convince all men of science who have visited the spot. Though 
I found none with my own hands, it would have been hard to 
believe that those I saw at the quarries, in the Du Mesnil col- 
lection, at St. Germain, and in the Boucher de Perthes Museum, 
at Abbeville, had come from the surface or from anywhere 
else than the gravels themselves.’ 
1 One of the flint ** axes” he laid aside, saying that it was an imitation. 
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ios or terraces—an ipe" the aiei. mat by the prevalence of the 
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merkii, the prevalence of the Rhin. tichorinus, and the arance and 
great increase of the Mammoth; ev a lower, the tat Potep by 
the extinction of the Mammoth and the prevalence of the Reindeer. 
The Carriere de Leon, Port St. Gilles, and Chemin de Pos tè quarries 
now represent the upper; the Balastiere du — de Fer the middle, 
and t s aoan ppro s the lower terrace 
