HUMAN REMAINS IN THE DRIFT. 
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Section across the locality where the bones and human skull were found. 
a, loam ; b, clay ; c, pulpy sUt, very soft, and gravels. 
The pit sunk was about fifteen feet square, and at the bottom a 
ten feet rod could be driven in with the hand alone, so soft was the 
material. The divisions between the loam, clay, and silt had never 
been disturbed from its first deposition. This was particularly noted. 
Within a few yards of the spot this soft stuff gave place to fine 
gravel and sand, the clay and loam continuous as before. In some 
portions of this valley the gravel and sand comes up to within a few 
inches of the surface, and the clay is wanting ; but this is not the 
case in this immediate locality. This soft, pulpy matter indicates a 
percolating connection between the " reaches" and the river. Suffice 
it then to say that at this depth of twenty-five feet, the antlers of 
a reindeer were found four feet long, sundry other large bones, sup- 
posed to be those of Bos Elephas, Equus, &c., and numerous copro- 
