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XANE rOX PALEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS.
459
me. With respect to the animal-re-
mains discovered in the high ter-
race, it was found that the surface-
soil contained so many hones of re-
cent animals which dropped down
into the cuttings, that it was diffi-
cult to distinguish them from any
that might be found in the gravel.
The whole were therefore submitted
to Mr. Busk, who has kindly under-
taken to identify them, and whose
report upon them will be read to the
Meeting. (See p. 465.) The position
of one tooth of Elephas primigenius
may, however, I think, be regarded
as fixed ; it was found in the gravel,
near Section H, in Lome Terrace,
at a dej)th of 7 feet. I did not see
it taken out of the gravel ; but it was
handed to me shortly after it was
discovered ; and I have no reason to
suppose, nor do I think there is any
likelihood of its having been brought
to this place from any other deposit
of gravel. The nearest gravel-pit
then being worked was a mile and
a half distant ; the bones of that
gravel-pit were being collected for
me by other workmen at the time ;
and there could be no object in
transferring this bone from one pit
to another when they knew that
they would receive the same re-
muneration, from whichever pit it
came. This, however, to the best
of my belief, is the first tooth of
Elephas primigenius which has been
found in the high-terrace gravel.
The mid terrace is prolific in ani-
mal-remains, as has been already
shown by the researches of Professor
Morris.
I now turn to the Mid-terrace
gravel. About a mile and a half
south of the Church field at Acton,
in a place called Brown's Orchard,
between Acton Green and the Brent-
ford Road, some excavations were
being made to obtain gravel. The
position of this spot, with reference
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