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gravel, and in all cases have produced great quantities of fragments 

 of bones, tnsks and teeth. These latter pits have been constantly- 

 watched by me ; and on the eighth of April last on visiting that at 

 Biddenham, I found the men working in the direction where many 

 bones had previously been found, and where a large portion of a 

 tusk of Ehphas prvmigenius had been taken out. I went into the pit 



Section of Pleistocene Deposits at Biddenham, near Bedford. 



Feet. r ^m&p*K,«!.m M^^^J^ Thin course of earth 

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Dark red clay discolourations by infiltration. 



Sub-angular gravel, mostly worn, and 

 chiefly composed of flints, small 

 fragments of iron shale of the green- 

 sand, and a few portions of the older 

 rocks. 



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Sand. 



Vein of sandy clay. 

 Sand. 



Thin layer of black, apparently woody 

 matter. Helix. 



Fine Gravel. 



Sandy clay layer — Succinea. 

 Sand, occasional angular pieces of flint. 

 Many shells, principally of the Succinea, 



Planorbis, and Cyclas. 

 Coarse gravel, boulders of red sandstone, 

 flints, older rocks — some very large. 

 Ochreous. 



^ ^^^V^^^^^H Layer of ochreous clay — shells, Cyclas. 

 ^'^t^^^ _!iSLI Smaller gravel. Implements. Bones and 

 teeth of Elephas, Deer, Bos, &c. 



Limestone rock. 



and found in the veins of sandy clay which lie between the deposits 

 of gravel several species of fresh-water shells, and in the loose gravel 

 at the bottom I also observed pieces of a large bone. I then com- 

 menced a rigid examination of all the gravel which had been taken 

 out of this part, and told the men to look closely at that which they 

 might afterwards throw up. On the heap which had just been 

 removed I found an oval flint-implement, and after further search, I 

 discovered another implement of the pointed kind of the types found 

 at Amiens. I caused the section to be preserved, and immediately 

 communicated the particulars of the discovery to the President of the 



