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thai found on the river, which is a species of limestone ; these had been thrown 

 evidently with the intention of striking the animal. I found the fore- and hind- 

 foot standing in a perpendicular position ; and likewise the full length'of the 

 leg below the layer of ashes, so deep in the mud and water that the fire had 

 no effect on them. The fore-foot of the animal consists of four toes and a 

 thumb ; each toe has five joints, each last joint was armed with a claw, or long- 

 nail. The thumb has two joints ; the crown of the foot is composed of four 

 bones, joined together, and each connected to a toe. On the top of this is a 

 thin round bone, connecting them with the shin bone. The construction of 

 this foot shows that it posssessed much power in grasping and holding objects. 

 The hind-foot is smaller, and has also four toes, with live joints, but has no 

 thumb. The crown is entirely different in construction from that of the fore- 

 foot. A few of the teeth appeared to have been broken out by the force of 

 the rocks thrown at the head or the animal, and were carried some little dis- 

 tance ; so that they escaped in a measure the violence of the fire, and have all 

 the appearance of those of a carnivorous animal. The second trace of human 

 existence with these animals, I found during the excavation of the Missouri 

 Leviathan. There was embedded immediately under the femur or hind-leg 

 bone of this animal an arrow-head of rose-coloured Hint, resembling those used 

 by the American Indians, but of a larger size. This was the only arrow-head 

 immediately with the skeleton; but in the same strata, at a distance of five or 

 six feet, in a horizontal direction, four more arrow-heads were found; three of 

 these were of the same formation as the preceding ; the fourth was of a very 

 rude workmanship. One of the last-mentioned three was of agate, the others 

 of blue flint. These arrow-heads are indisputably the work of human hands. 

 I examined the deposit in which they were embedded, and raised them out of 

 their embedment with my own hands (p. 21-24)." 



I have visited a drift-bed at Aylesford, but have not succeeded in getting 

 any flint implements, excepting questionable arrow-heads. Molars and tusks 

 of Elepkus primigenitis are frequently met with, but I have not yet realized my 

 desires in respect to weapons, even with the assistance of my boys, whose eyes 

 are sharper than my own. I hope, however, to do so. 



In the Charles Museum we have a Hint celt of orthodox type, like that 

 drawn in the "Geologist," fig. 37, p. 19. This specimen was found at the 

 top of the chalk escarpment, above Kit's Coty House, and was lying in what 

 is termed a "pot hole," near the surface, and associated with other flints, as 

 they are usually seen, in great abundance. The " pot-holes" I believe to be 

 caused by the subsidence of the clay and flints into sandpipes of large 

 area. I intend visiting this locality again, and if anything worth notice turns 

 up, I shall communicate it. — Yours very truly TV. H. Bensted, Maidstone. 



Geology of Cadiz. — Sir, — Would you kindly refer me to any books or 

 memoirs in which may be found some account of the Geology of Cadiz? — Yours, 

 &c, Sebastian Baggs. 



We cannot find any work descriptive of the Geology of Cadiz. This city is 

 situated on the Tertiary beds, which form part of the Guadalquiver basin, as 

 may be seen by reference to either Dumont's or Murchison and ]S~icoPs 

 Geological Map of Europe. It would be advisable for any geologist visiting 

 Cadiz and its neighbourhood to compare the rocks and fossils seen there with 

 the description given of those in Grenada and Murcia by Silvertop (" Geological 

 Sketch of the Tertiary Formation in the provinces of Grenada and Murcia," &c. 

 1S36J ; and by Ansted (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xv, p. 585, &c). 



Errata in" "Geology of Athlone." — Page 169, 17 lines from bottom, 

 for "any small, &c." read "my small, fyc" — Do., 11 lines from bottom, for "Italy" 

 read " Slaty" — p. 170, 7 lines from top, for "parallel, crosswise" read "parallel 

 or cross ways to"' — p. 171, under woodcut, for "strike north and east" read 



