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CHAPTER VIII.

POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME—concluded.

Fluvio-marine Strata, with Flint Implements, near Abbeville—Marine Shells in same—Cyrena Fluminalis—Mammalia—Entire Skeleton of Rhinoceros—Flint Implements, why found low down in Fluviatile Deposits—Rivers shifting their Channels—Relative Ages of higher and lower-level Gravels—Section of Alluvium of St. Acheul—Two Species of Elephant and Hippopotamus coexisting with Man in France—Volume of Drift, proving Antiquity of Flint Implements—Absence of Human Bones in tool-bearing Alluvium, how explained—Value of certain Kinds of negative Evidence tested thereby—Human Bones not found in drained Lake of Haarlem .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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CHAPTER IX.

WORKS OF ART IN POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

Flint Implements in ancient Alluvium of the Basin of the Seine—Bones of Man and of extinct Mammalia in the Cave of Arcy—Extinct Mammalia in the Valley of the Oise—Flint Implement in Gravel of same Valley—Works of Art in Post-Pliocene Drift in Valley of the Thames—Musk Buffalo—Meeting of northern and southern Fauna—Migrations of Quadrupeds—Mammals of Amoor Land—Chronological Relation of the older Alluvium of the Thames to the Glacial Drift—Flint Implements of Post-Pliocene Period in Surrey, Middlesex, Kent, Bedfordshire, and Suffolk .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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CHAPTER X.

CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACE OF SEPULTURE OF THE POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD.

Flint Implements in Cave containing Hyæna and other extinct Mammalia in Somersetshire—Caves of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales—Rhinoceros hemitœchus—Ossiferous Caves near Palermo—Sicily once part of Africa—Rise of Bed of the Mediterranean to the Height of three hundred Feet in the Human Period in Sardinia—Burial Place of Post-Pliocene Date of Aurignac in the South of France—Rhinoceros tichorhinus eaten by Man—M. Lartet on extinct Mammalia and Works of Art found in the Aurignac Cave—Relative Antiquity of the same, considered .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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