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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. 1897 Excerpt:...gravel, they are evidently the fragments of mammals that were drowned by ordinary accident or in times of flood. In such emergencies man is more expert and cautious than the lower orders. Even in his lowest estate lie has some measure of foresight, and escapes from a dangerous situation. The gravel pits were not the places of burial. They do not mark the exact sites of human dwellings. They represent materials that were carried to their present place by the action of water. In many cases these materials have been brought from considerable distances. Even an occasional human skeleton given to the river would be tossed and broken and worn, in its course onward, being ground against stones and pebbles into elementary fragments. Moreover, decay does its work. The hardest bone will not survive forever, even under conditions favorable to its preservation. The paucity of human remains in the gravel beds is in close analogy with the like fact in the shell mounds shen mounds of Denmark. They, too, have yielded in but mains of men. rarest instances any actual fragments of the human frame, and it is easy to see that more might be expected from the kitchen middens, with their abundant detritus of man's habitation and localized association with his life, than in the case of river-drift heaped' up at long distances from the place where he had his abode. Not only in the gravel pits of the valley of the Somme, not only in like situations along the banks of Extent of the the Seine and the Oise, have these relics of the prehis-England, toric life of man been discovered. Like revelations have been made in the river bottoms and sandpits of Great Britain. In a gravel bed at Hoxne, in Suffolk, specimens of human workmanship like those above described were found as early as the b...