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1870.] WILSON RUGBY SURFACE-DEPOSITS. 201 the diagram (fig. 3). The surface of the clay is quite different from the present surface of the country.

The most remarkable spot in this river-valley is the pit near Lawford, from which Dr. Buckland extracted so many valuable mammalian remains. This is now a pit containing water, nearly filled, however, with sand washed into it by a little stream.

The other valley of Rainsbrook and the Leam is of the same general nature. Alluvial meadows, with a meandering stream, occupy the centre ; the broad base of the valley, however, is studded with numerous slight elevations. No borings have been made there, and there is absolutely no knowledge of the subjacent deposits. At Willoughby some mammalian remains were discovered, about which Mr. Goldney, of Willoughby, was good enough to furnish me with the annexed extracts from Deacon's ' History of Willoughby' (London, 1828). " The antediluvian remains which have been discovered at this place are the teeth and tusks of the Mammoth or Asiatic Elephant [p. 43]. The teeth first discovered in this village were dug out of gravel, about 12 feet from the surface of the earth, in a field near the Public School, about forty years ago [Sc. 1788]. There was discovered at the same time a tusk weighing about 30 lbs., 5 feet long, and curved to the amount of three quarters of a circle. Another discovery of a tooth and tusk was made about two years ago, but the workmen broke the tusk."

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