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colder climate, through much greater elevation aud more general distribution of 

 the land, prior to these changes ; and if may be easily explained why raised 

 beaches containing shells of arctic type may be compatible with such general 

 depression ; and these and other chemical changes acting below the surface of 

 the rocks, and accelerated by the mechanical opening of their fissures through 

 the freezing of water in them, may be reasonably supposed to have in some 

 instances produced sudden floods of water accompanied by fields of ice, account- 

 ing for the presence of remains of thick-skinned monsters in the ice and frozen 

 soil of Siberia. 



(To be continuecl.) 



NOTES A^^TD QUERIES. 



Tlint Implements at Hoxne. — Sir, — Last week I paid a second visit to 

 the brickyard at Hoxne, in Suffolk, the interesting locality in which stone axes 

 are said to have been found beneath the remains of extinct animals. In the 

 October of last year I had the gratification of accompanying Messrs. Prestwich, 

 Evans, and Gunn to the same spot. 



On my last visit I found the ground as left by the various explorers, and I 

 learnt from the workmen that a clergyman from Norwich (Mr. King) had been 

 there about a month previously, and had found two celts, one was taken from 

 the brickyard four feet from its surface, and the other from the gravelly shingle, 

 which lies between the brickearth and the fluviatile bed, consequently above 

 the latter, and the workmen pointed out to me the precise spots. Mr. Prest- 

 wich secured a celt from the brick-earth at his first visit, and Mr. Evans a 

 large portion of a fractured one from the gravel-bed above mentioned. I am 

 not aware that more than four celts have been taken immediately from the beds 

 in which they lie by recent explorers of the ground. 



As the object of this communication is to urge the verification of Mr. 

 Ereere's statements, which has not at present been done, I will here give his 

 section of the ground, that your readers may more readily understand what I 

 consider is still required to be done to verify it. Not that I in the slightest 

 degree question the faithfulness of his accounts ; still, the high interest apper- 

 taining to the subject renders it very desirable that no stone should be left 

 unturned to complete the inquiry. 



The following is a copy of Mr. Ereere's section : — 



1. Yegetable earth, one and a half feet. 



2. Argill (brick-earth), seven and a half feet. 



3. Sand mixed with shells and other marine substances, one foot. 



4. A gravelly soil in which the flints are found, generally at the rate of five 

 or six in a square yard, two feet. 



In the same stratum are frequently found small fragments of wood, very per- 

 fect when first dug up, but which soon decomposes on being exposed to the 

 air ; and in the stratum (No. 3) were found some extraordinary bones, particu- 

 larly a jaw-bone of enormous size of some unknown animal, with the teeth 

 remaining in it. 



Mr. Prestmch's section, given in his paper to the Royal Society, agrees 

 with the above as far as the succession of strata ; but it is in a correction of 

 stratum No. 2, which is a freshwater deposit, and not a marine — a very excusable 

 error, considering that Mr. Ereere's paper was written sixty-three years ago. 



