... physical geography of the country, comprising both the filling up with sediment and drift, and the partial reexcavation of the valley, have happened since old river-beds were, at some former period, the receptacles of the worked flints. The number... The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 2241861Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 764 pages
...shells overlaying the gravel." The number of the flint implements is computed at above fourteen hundred in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a mile in breadth. They are of the rudest nature, as if formed by a people in the most degraded state of barbarism. Some... | |
| 1862 - 796 pages
...shells overlaying the gravel." The number of the flint implements is computed at above fourteen hundred in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a mile in breadth. They are of the rudest nature, as if formed by a people in the most degraded state of harharism. Some... | |
| 1861 - 448 pages
...receptacles of the worked flints. The number of these last, already computed at above fourteen hundred in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a...verifying the true geological position of the implements. only of the coarse gravel with worked flints above mentioned, but also of super-imposed beds of sand... | |
| 1861 - 450 pages
...receptacles of the worked flints. The number of these last, already computed at above fourteen hundred in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a...visitors abundant opportunities of verifying the true gcological position of the implements. " The old alluvium, whether at higher or lower levels, consists... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - 1863 - 562 pages
...shells overlaying the gravel." The number of the flint implements is computed at above fourteen hundred, in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a mile in breadth. They are of the rudest nature, as if formed by a people in the most degraded state of barbarism. Some... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - 1869 - 462 pages
...shells overlaying the gravel." The number of the flint implements is computed at above fourteen hundred, in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a mile in breadth. They are of the rudest nature, as if formed by a people in the most degraded state of barbarism. Some... | |
| 1861 - 448 pages
...receptacles of the worked flints. The number of these last, already computed at above fourteen hundred in an area of fourteen miles in length and half a...verifying the true geological position of the implements. only of the coarse gravel with worked flints above mentioned, but also of super-imposed beds of sand... | |
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