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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...others much rolled. In page 155 of his "Antiquity of Man," Lyell mentions that the sands and gravels of Menchecourt, and those of the ancient alluvium of the Thames, were of the same age; that the fossil mollusca and mammalia of the two districts agree very closely; and that the cyrenafluminalis was common to both. At Grays Thurrock, in Essex, in strata of brick earth, loam, and gravel, were found the remains of the elephas antiquus, rhinoceros, hippopotamus major, and several other extinct genera; and amongst the accompanying shells, the cyrena fluminalis was extremely abundant. It was associated with the unio littoralis, also in great numbers. Lyell adds: " This conspicuous fresh water mussel (the unio) is no longer an inhabitant of the British Isles, but still lives in the Seine and Loire. "t In page 159 he says: "The relation of the glacial period to alluvial deposits, such as that at Grays Thurrock, where the cyrena fluminalis, unio littoralis, and the hippopotamus, seeming rather to imply a warmer climate, has been a matter of long and animated discussion. When did those tropical molusca and hippopotami, whose climate is now Lyell's "Antiquity of Man," page 123. t Ibid. page 157. HIPPOPOTAMUS MAJOR, SUBTROPICALS. 59 Egyptian, whose home is in the Nile, inhabit Great Britain? They could not have existed in England during the glacial period; they could not have come here since. They must have been denizens of these latitudes when the climate was milder than at present. If it be conceded that their period in England was before the glacial, and that they became imbedded in the brick earth, loam, and gravels at Grays Thurrock before then, when were the antique implements of man placed beside them Were they cotemporaneous, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151323897
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151323896
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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