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THE GEOLOGIST. 
implements -were manufactured and used, Tlie very association of 
particular hinds of animals with the worked flints, and the manner of 
theii' 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 BELYOIR. 
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 ma gnificent castle of the Duke of Rutland. 
Fossils in abundance may be obtained from 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 quoestio 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 
Goethes Faust there occurs that wonderful scene, where, in the 
classical Walpurgis night, on the Pharsalian plains, the mocking 
