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DILUVIAL DEPOSITS. 
“ The remains in question were found in a bed 
of gravelly loam, situated near the foot of the 
Downs, and reposing upon the chalk, at an eleva- 
tion of about eighty feet above the level of the 
Arun. They were lying very superficially, the 
first fragment of bone that attracted our notice 
being scarcely three feet beneath the surface. 
The specimens collected consist of a tusk, four 
grinders, and several fragments of other bones, 
apparently portions of the skull ; the body ap- 
peared to lie beneath a bank of earth of consider- 
able thickness, and could not have been removed 
without much labour. The tusk was lying upon 
its convex part, and notwithstanding every pre- 
caution, broke into several pieces, upon our at- 
tempting to remove it. It measured four feet and 
a half long, and from twenty- two to twenty-four 
inches in circumference ; but neither the base nor 
point was perfect. The largest grinder of the 
lower jaw weighed six pounds four ounces ; its 
upper surface being three inches and a half wide, 
and seven inches long ; one of the molares of the 
upper jaw was broken in two, and the pieces de- 
tached from each other.” 
The grinders and bones of the elephant, horse, 
ox, and deer, occur in the calcareous bed at 
Brighton, as previously mentioned ; and the jaw 
of a whale was found in the shingle bed. 
The antlers and bones of the red deer are said 
to have been discovered in a bed of loam, in sink- 
ing a well near the barracks, a mile to the north- 
east of Brighton. The remains of a deer were 
found in the diluvium at Copperas Gap, near 
