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THE GEOLOGIST. 



Trom Mr. Freere's cominimiccation to the Antiquaries' Society of London^, 

 written in 1797, we learn that the flint weapons were taken from No. 4 of the 

 above section, and that the bones of " enormous size" were met with in No, 8, 

 consequently the flints lie beneath the bones, and if so, must have existed at 

 or before the deposit of the bones of the " unknown animal and this is the 

 point of interest vrhich requii'es to be proved. The astragalus of a mammoth 

 in the possession of Mr. Amyott, of Diss, and mentioned by Mr. Prestwich in 

 his paper, I have seen, and there is no doubt respecting its nature ; but as IMr. 

 Amyott could not learn from which stratum at the brick-yard it was taken, that 

 bone is of no avail in the inquiry. 



There is nothing in the information recently acquired to disprove Mr. Ereere's 

 statements ; at the same time, sufiicient evidence has not been sought to estab- 

 lish them. The probabilities are decidedly in their favour, and the correctness 

 of Mr. Freere's account is greatly confirmed by the fact that tne flint -weapons 

 met with in Trance occur in similar positions, i. e., in association with, and 

 beneath a fluviatile deposit, the flints in both cases being found in undisturbed 

 ground. Nor is our belief in his account weakened, although it appears that 

 all the recent recoveries of the flints have been from strata above the bone-bed 

 No, 3, including the numerous flint-weapons that have been met with by the 

 workmen of late years, those persons having worked the ground for brick-earth 

 above the bone-bed only. 



I have before said that this inquiry is of so interesting a nature that it is 

 highly desirable nothing should be omitted which can firmly establish the evi- 

 dence hitherto produced. As the recent explorations at Hoxne have not ex- 

 tended by digging (for boring only is anything but satisfactory) into stratum 

 No. 4 of Mr. Treere's section, and as all the recently found celts have been 

 met with above the bone-bed No. 3, I hope that some steps will be taken to 

 cany the search thcroughly into No. 4, for till that is done, we are not in a 

 position to confirm or disprove Mr. Treere's interesting and valuable informa- 

 tion. 



The only trouble, for I will not call it an obstacle, which will occiu' in the 

 deeper research at Hoxne, will arise from an abundant flow of water ; but this 

 may with little difiiculty be removed by cutting a narrow trench into the 

 adjoiiiing low-ground — a secondary tributary valley to the Waveney ; or by the 

 employment of a common wooden pump. — Yours faithfully, C. B. Eose, Great 

 Yarmouth. August 9th. 



Geological ISi otes on the Punjab. — Dear Sie, — I was going to say there 

 is not a stone of any sort, size, or description in the whole Punjab — at least, 

 in a le]]gth of three or four hundred miles that I am well acquainted with, two 

 hundred of Vi hich, from Mooltan to Lahore, is the site of the railway. 'V\'ith 

 sucli a eouiiUy before me, it is not surprising if an amateur like myself forgets 

 his st(>iic-and clirt-ology, as I have every prospect of doing. There are, how- 

 ever, sdine trilling appearances, which the dearth of more important ones forces 

 on the obseiyation; ore of these is the " Kunkur," from which all lime is 

 made. I said there weie no stones here, I should have ^di^rocJis, for in various 

 places strewn over the surface of the sandy desert is found a quantity of 

 " kunkm-." In some places it is as fine as' barley-corns, in others large as 

 egijs, in shape most irregular, mosslike, and eccentric ; at times similar to 

 stalagmites, in_ colour green, brown, and red, fracture conchoidal. The origin 

 of this formation is a subject of inteiesting speculation. The soil on which it 

 lies is— 1, A very fine cbit't-sand ; 2, An excellent brick-sand, or loam; below 

 these, at twenty feet, fine white micaceous sand — say, six to ten feet ; then 

 another bed of fine brick-soil and white sand again. This has been the appear- 

 ance of the soil in the mcUs bored down in two hundred miles of railway. I 

 made a tour hist year to the mountains of Cashmere in search of coal and iron. 



