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would give a wider range to these strange creatures, which, at once resemble 

 and mock the " human form divine" — which so closely approach us in structure, 

 and yet differ so widely from us in many points of their external form. And 

 when we consider that almost all other animals have in previous ages been 

 represented by allied yet distinct forms — with what intense interest and anxious 

 expectation must we look forward to the time when the progress of civilization 

 in those hitherto wild countries may lay open the monuments of a former world, 

 and enable us to ascertain approximately the period when the present species of 

 orangs first made their appearance, and perhaps prove the former existence of a 

 allied species still more gigantic in their dimensions, and more or less human in 

 their form and structure !" 



Beds or Flint Pebbles at Chaelton. — Mr. Edm. Jones having informed 

 me of the remarkable difference in the character of the two beds of flint pebbles 

 at Charlton, near Woolwich, and presented specimens, I requested him to fur- 

 nish me with a section showing the position of the beds, which he has kindly done. 

 The flints from the upper or No. 1 pebble-bed are readily broken by the slightest 

 blow of the hammer ; while those from the lower, or No 2 bed are intensely 

 hard and tough, and are broken only with the greatest difficulty. It is not easy 

 to perceive the reason of this difference, as both are ordinary chalk-flints. — ■ 

 S. J. M. 



Soil containing pebbles, many 1 

 broken. 5 



Yellow sand containing pebbles 

 (No. 1). 



Section at Charlton (Mr. Alter? 8 Pit). 



mmm^mmmmm, 6in - 



White sand, 

 sand. 



with, seams of red 



This line is very clearly denned. 

 Yellow sand, with pebbles (No. 2) 



Yellow sand, with pebbles and ) 

 remains of Cyrena, etc. ) 



Seams of yellow, red, and white 

 sand, and blue clay. 



Pebble bed, with the remains of 

 Cyrena, Cerithium, Neritina, 

 Melanopsis, etc., mostly 

 crushed; seems to have been 

 a large shell-bank, from the 

 manner in which the shells are 

 heaped together and water- 

 worn, or eroded. 



Dark blue clay, containing Cy- 

 rena and Melania. 



<g* At 20 feet north of this section 

 <m this bed is 4 ft. in thickness. 



'oo At 24 feet north of this section 

 +5 this bed is only 6 ft. 9 in. 



f At 18 feet north of this sec- 

 X tion this bed is 4 ft. 



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