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stratification, but are simply the section of an im- 
mense heap of fragments of chalk and flints, mixed 
with clay and sand, the whole having, at some 
distant period, been subjected to the action of 
water, and deposited upon the solid chalk stratum.” 
ORGANIC REMAINS OF THE DILUVIAL DEPOSITS. 
It is always in deposits of this kind, that is, in 
diluvial beds spread over the surface of jilains, or 
accumulated in the bottoms of vallies, that tlie 
teetli and bones of mammalia have been discovered 
in various parts of England. In Sussex, however, 
these remains but very rarely occur ; the bones 
and teeth of the horse, ox, deer, and elephant, being 
the only examples at present known. 
J. Hawkins, Esq., of Bignor Park, informed me, 
that about sixty years since, the bones of an ele- 
phant were dug up in Burton Park, near Arundel, 
but no satisfactory account of the circumstances 
attending the discovery was preserved. 
In the brick-loam at Hove, near Brighton, a frasr- 
ment of a bone resembling the femur, and a grinder 
of a large size, were found at the depth of about six 
feet ; the tooth was decidedly that of the Asiatic 
elephant. 
At Peppering, near Arundel, the bones, and 
several grinders of elephants, have been found in 
a bed of gravel, on the estate of John Drewett, 
Esq., of Peppering, who kindly favoured me with 
the following remarks concerning them. 
