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would give a wider range to these strange creatures, which at once resemble 
and mock the " hunian 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 of Elint Pebbles at Chablton. — 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 ") 
broken. } 
Yellow sand containing pebbles 
(No. 1). 
White sand, with seams of red 
sand. 
This line is very clearly defined. 
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, Cerithitim, Neritina, 
Melanopsis, etc., mostly 
crashed; 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. 
Section at Charlton (Mr. Allen's Pit). 
d At 20 feet north of this section 
(N this bed is 4 ft, in thickness. 
CO At 24 feet north of this section 
^ this bed is only 5 ft. 9 in. 
^ ( At 18 feet north of this sec* 
S X tion this bed is 4 ft. 
4 in. 
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