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INDEX. 
Dover coast corresponds with that west of Calais, 
246. 
Dragons. Bones of bears, called dragons’ bones, 
104. 
Drawings by Mr. Clift, Miss Morland, and Miss 
Duncombe, 15. 
Dream cave, near Wirksworth, discovered in a 
lead mine, A. D. 1822, 61. 
Dressings, or diluvial furrows, near Edinburgh, 
203. 
Dropmore, pebbles from Warwickshire in gravel 
at, 252. 
Dry valleys on the chalk of England and France, 
257. 
Dudley, granite blocks on the west of it, 199. 
Duncombe Park, open fissure with bones, 54. 
-Charles, Esq. and Lady Charlotte, pre¬ 
sented specimens to Oxford Museum, 14. 
--his cave at Kirby Moor- 
side, 53. 
Dunstable, pebbles of porphyry, 197. 
Durham county, character of its diluvium, 194. 
Dust, black animal, in cave of Kiihloch, 138. 
Dyke of mud and stones filling fissures at Chud- 
leigh, 69. 
Dyserth, lead mine in gravel near it, 177. 
E. 
Ecclesiasticus, hyaenas’ enmity to dogs alluded 
to in, 23. 
Edinburgh, proof of diluvial action hear it., 203. 
-Museum, elephant’s tusks preserved 
there, 179. 
Eichstadt, bones in gravel, 26. 
Elephant, fossil, or mammoth, its history, 172. 
-found with flesh entire in ice, 183. 
-preserved in ice, 45. 
-fossil, characteristic of diluvium, 171. 
--common to caves and gravel beds, 146. 
-inhabited England, 42. 
Elephant, fossil, its extent in England and else¬ 
where, 172. 
- found in cave of Schneiderloch and 
Zahnloch, 106. 
-- fossil, on plain of Mexico, 222. 
——— remains of, in lead mine, explained, 
177. 
-atTarifa, near Gibraltar, 159. 
Elephants, chiefly young ones, at Kirkdale, 18. 
-bones long ago noticed in Britain, 172. 
-, supposed to be bones of giants, 
173. 
-have tj een imported 
by the Romans, ibid. 
-extent of their bones in Britain, 174. 
-their remains prove the gravel of Europe 
and America to be of the same era, 218. 
-- were eaten by hyaenas, 37. 
-do they occur fossil in central and 
southern Asia and in Africa, and if so, are they 
of extinct species, 170. 
-number found in Germany, 180. 
-lived near where their bones are found, 
184. 
-found in diluvium of Scotland, 179. 
Elk, abundant under Irish peat bogs, 180. 
-, fossil, found also in diluvium at Walton, ibid. 
Elster River flows in a valley of denudation, 213. 
.-, valley of the, flanked by caves near Leipsig, 
167. 
England, its antediluvian inhabitants, 96. 
English Channel, in part a valley of denudation, 
246. 
Engulfment of many rivers near Kirkdale, 6. 
Ensham Heath, quartz crystals in its gravel, 251. 
Entrance of caves once different from their pre¬ 
sent mouths, 125. 
Erie Lake, diluvian gravel near it, 216. 
Esbach River, bones in caves on both sides, 103. 
Esper, his description of Gailenreuth, 99. 
-his view of the cave of Gailenreuth, 133. 
— his plate of broken bear’s bone reunited, 75. 
