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THE GEOLOGIST. 



implements were manufactured and used. The very association of 

 particular hinds of animals with the worked flints, and the manner of 

 their association in deposits which are really undisturbed and have 

 not been subjected to torrential action, should be the stepping-stones 

 to the right path of inductive inference, and should be most carefully 

 noted in all discoveries of this class of objects.. 



HUMAN REMAINS FOUND WITH THE BONES OF EXTINCT 

 ANIMALS IN THE YALE OF BELVOIR. 



Dear Sir, — Having occasion to visit the vale of Belvoir, a few 

 days since I met with a few facts which will, I think, be interesting 

 to your readers, and I trust they will induce some of them to make 

 an excursion to that lovely vale the heights of which are crowned 

 with the magnificent castle of the Duke of Rutland. 



Fossils in abundance may be obtained trom the marlstone, lias, 

 clays and gravels of the drift, &c. In the lias I have every reason to 

 believe there is an abundance of coprolites, judging from what I 

 saw at the residence of William Ingram, Esq., near the castle, an 

 ardent geologist, who possesses an exceedingly good collection from 

 the neighbourhood. In it he has a very interesting young Plesio- 

 saurus. The specimen is not quite perfect, the neck being wanting. 

 It seems evident that the farmers in this district are not aware ot 

 the fertilizing agent that exists immediately under the soil. 



But the fact which I principally wish you to record is rather im- 

 portant just now, as it bears upon the vexata qucestio of the day — the 

 age of the human family. Two hours ride from the castle will bring 

 you to the valley of the Trent, near Newark. In this valley as most 

 of your readers are aware, the Drift is largely developed, and 

 abundance of fossils characteristic of that period may be found, such 

 as mammalian bones of extinct species, &c. ; and now I think it is 

 probable the acme of Mons. Perthes' dreams have been realized, for a 

 part of the human frame has been found commingled with extinct 

 animals. The arrow-head found entangled in the horns of the 

 stag found by Mr. Pengelly at Brixham was vast in importance ; 

 it told us by inference that man must have existed along with the 

 extinct animals of, mayhaps, the closing aeons of the tertiary era. 

 Some of us strove to look back through the vista of time, but the 

 darkness seemed only intensified by that sudden spark cast athwart 

 the gloom ; but the flame of knowledge kindles more and more as 

 the electric light of intelligence penetrates. In the second part of 

 G-oethes Faust there occurs that wonderful scene, where, in the 

 classical Walpurgis night, on the Pharsalian plains, the mocking 



