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colder climate, tlu'ongh mueli greater elevation and more general distriijutiou of 
tlie laud, i)ri()r to these changes ; and it may be easily explained why raised 
beaches containing shells of arctic type may be compatible with such general 
depression ; and these and other chemical changes acting below the surface of 
the rocks, and accielerated by the raeciianical opening of theii- fissures through 
the freezing of water in them, may be reasonably supposed to have in some 
instances produced sudden floods of water accompanied by fields of ice, account- 
ing for the presence of remains of thick-skinned monsters in the ice and frozen 
soil of Siberia. 
(To be coiitiimecl.) 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Flint Implements at Hoxne. — Sir, — Last week I paid a second visit to 
the brickyard at Hoxne, in Suffolk, the interesting locality in which stone axes 
are said to have been found beneath the remains of extmet animals. In the 
October of last year I had the gratification of accompanying Messrs. Prestwich, 
Evans, and Gunn to the same spot. 
On my last visit I found the ground as left by the various explorers, and I 
learnt from the workmen that a clergyman from Nor'nach (Mr. King) had been 
there about a month previously, and had found two celts, one was taken from 
the brickyard four feet from its surface, and the other from the gravelly shingle, 
which lies between the brickearth and the fluviatile bed, consequently above 
the latter, and the workmen pointed out to me the precise spots. Mr. Prest- 
wich secured a celt from the brick-earth at lus first visit, and Mr. Evans a 
large portion of a fractured one from the gravel-bed above mentioned. I am 
not aware that more than four celts have been taken immediately from the beds 
in which they lie by recent explorers of the ground. 
As the object of this communication is to ui-ge the verification of Mr. 
Ereere's statements, which has not at present been done, I will here give his 
section of the ground, that your readers may more readily understand what I 
consider is still required to be done to verify it. Not that I in the slightest 
degree question the faithfulness of his accounts ; still, the high interest apper- 
taining to the subject renders it very deskable that no stone should be left 
untui'ned to complete the inquhy. 
The following is a copy of Mr. Ereere's section : — 
1. Vegetable earth, one and a half feet. 
2. Argill (brick-earth), seven and a half feet. 
3. Sand mixed with shells and other marine substances, one foot. 
4. A gravelly soil in which the flints are found, generally at the rate of five 
or six in a square yard, two feet. 
In the same stratum are frequently found small fragments of wood, very per- 
fect when first dug up, but which soon decomposes on being exposed to the 
air ; and in the stratum (No. 3) were found some extraordinary bones, particu- 
larly a jaw-bone of enormous size of some unknown animal, with the teeth 
remaining in it. 
ilr. Prestwich's section, given in his paper to the Royal Society, agrees 
with the above as far as the succession of strata; birt it is in a correction of 
stratum No. 9,, which is a freshwater deposit, and not a marine — a very excusable 
error, considering that Mr. Ereere's paper was written sixty-three years ago. 
