INDEX. 
283 
Black earth, abundance of it at Kiihloch, 137,138. 
-at Scharzfeld, from decayed bones, 
117. 
Blackdown, rounded quartz pebbles on its sum¬ 
mits, 247. 
-summits have chalk flints on them, 
245. 
-pebbles of plastic clay formation on 
it, ibid. 
Blade bone in cave at Paviland, 87. 
Blocks on the Jura, analogous to pebbles on the 
top of the rock of Gibraltar, 157. 
Blorenge Mountain, effect of torrents from it, 
188. 
Bloxam, A. Esq. discovered hyaena at Rugby, 26. 
Blumenbach, his description of bones near Os- 
terode, 107. 
_number of elephants found in Ger¬ 
many, within his knowledge, 180. 
__his opinion of the origin of bones in 
caves, 103. 
Bochart, his account of hyaenas mentioned in 
Scripture, and classic writers, 23. 
Bog report, Irish, quoted, 209. 
Bode river, near cave of Bauman’s Hohle, 118. 
Bombay, agates and onyx stones in diluvium, 220. 
Bones, number of and broken state at Kirkdale, 
12 . 
_ fracture of them, the effect of violence, 17. 
__ cover the bottom of cave at Kirkdale, 16. 
__ hard parts only have escaped fracture, ibid. 
_marks of teeth on them, ibid. 
_splinters and comminuted fragments, of, 
ibid. 
_ cemented to a breccia, ibid. 
_ in different states of decay, and cause of 
ditto, 13. 
_ retain much of their gelatine, ibid. 
_preserved from decay by mud and stalag¬ 
mite, ibid. 
__ of recent animals in chimney of the cave 
Bones of modern animals mixed with antediluvian 
at Kostritz, 168. 
-recent, in same cave with antediluvian, 
100 . 
■-mixed with ancient, at Zahnloch, 
131. 
-general state of them in German caves, 
101 . 
-occur in caves but partially, 143. 
- recent, in cave of Gailenreuth, 135. 
-open cavern near Paviland, 96. 
- postdiluvian, in open fissure at Duncombe 
Park, 55. 
- their position in caves of Germany, 110. 
- broken, but not rolled, in Mediterranean 
breccia, 150. 
- invested with stalagmite, 16. 
- in caves at Kostritz, near Leipsig, 167. 
- not mineralised, 9. 
-soft, when taken from the diluvium, 175. 
-stamped and pounded by pebbles at Bau¬ 
man’s Hohle, 119. 
- from Westphalia, in the Museum at Bonn; 
112 . 
Bottle, fragment of, in breccia at Gibraltar, 156. 
Bouache, his account of depth of English Channel, 
246. 
Boulders abound in north-west of England, 199. 
-near Lake Erie and Lake Huron, 216. 
-of granite in counties of Wicklow and 
Carlow, 208. 
-abound in South Wales, 206. 
-on surface of hills in Stirlingshire, 202. 
Bowles, Mr. his account of bones in Spain, 160. 
Box near Bath, elephant’s remains, 174. 
Brackley, diluvial quartz pebbles, 197. 
Bransburton, ridge of gravel locally called barf, 
209. 
Braunston, its gravel, 196. 
Breccia, definition of, 8. 
- osseous, from Kirkdale, 49. 
- in caves. 111. 
at Paviland, 93. 
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