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INDEX. 
Lakes, their tendency to fill up, rather than burst, 
213. 
Lancashire, granite blocks on its plains, 199. 
Land-floods, did not introduce the mud to caves, 
50. 
Land-shells in fissures, and not in caves, 151. 
- 1 ■ in breccia of Gibraltar, 149. 154. 
Lark bones at Kirkdale, 15—34. 
Lawford, near Rugby, elephants and other re¬ 
mains there in diluvium, 176. 
- 1 hyaena discovered there, 
26. 
-- : -other animals in diluvium there, 27- 
Lead-mine, containing an entire rhinoceros, 62. 
-in North Wales, containing elephants’ 
teeth, stags’ horns, &c. 177. 
Ledges in caves covered with diluvial sediment, 
123. 
Lee’s Natural History of Lancashire, head of hip¬ 
popotamus engraved in it, 176. 
Leibnitz, his account of caves in the Hartz, 100. 
Leicestershire, its gravel, 195, 196. 
Lena, islands at its mouth full of bones, 46. 183. 
Lewisham, elephants’ remains, 174. 
Leyden, bones of elephant washed up by bursting 
of a dyke, 190. 
Licorne, or fossil unicorn, bones used for medicine, 
104. 
Lickey Hill, near Birmingham, may have supplied 
quartzose pebbles, 249. 
Limestone, cavernous, round Muggendorf, 124. 
Lincoln, character of diluvium, 193. 
Lincolnshire coast, formed of diluvium, 192. 
-•, the Wash, shows alluvium on di¬ 
luvium, 190. 
Linnaeus, why he overlooked the evidences of a 
deluge, 225. 
Litchfield gravel its character, 195. 
--pebbles in new red sandstone, 241. 
List of animals found at Kirkdale, 15. 
Llandebie, in Caermarthen. Cave with human 
bones, 166. 
Llanrwst, gravel and diluvial scratches near it, 
206, 
Loam in caves not produced by decomposition of 
the roof, 144. 
-- within the caves, resembles the diluvium 
without, 145. 
-noticed by De Luc, Leibnitz, Esper, and 
Rosenmuller, 109. 
—-in caves at Kostritz, 167- 
-in cave at Kirby Moorside, 53. 
-in cave of Scharzfeld, fills undervaultings, 
115. 
-in cave of Zahnloch, 131. 
-in cave of Gailenreutli, 136. 
-in caves of Germany, 102. 
-in fissures and caverns at Plymouth, 68. 
-in osseous breccia of Gibraltar, 150. 
-red in Mediterranean breccia, ibid. 
-diluvial at Gibraltar, 156. 
- varies in quality with the adjacent hills, 
191. 
Loders, Dorset, elephants’ remains at, 174. 
Lombardy, torrents in the plain of, 188. 
London, remains of elephant under the streets, 
174. 
Long Compton, pebbles of quartzose sandstone, 
250. 
Lucan mentions hyaenas’ bones as used in enchant¬ 
ments, 23. 
Lucas, J. Esq. his femur of rhinoceros, 81. 
Lutterworth, its gravel, 196. 
Lyme Regis, elephants’ remains, 174. 
Lyme, valleys intersect the coast near, 239. 
Lyme, valley simply of diluvial origin, 241. 
M. 
Macclesfield, granite blocks on the west of it, 
199. 
Maidenhead, pebbles from Warwickshire on the 
hills round, 198. 252. 
