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 these are found would also tend to prove that they and the shells were entombed together by aqueous agency, and that they were not the refuse of the repasts of a primitive race. Thus the bones were perfect, and, in some instances, large portions of the skeleton were together in the proper positions, not scattered and broken, as they would have been had some savage been feeding on them. Unfortunately these relics would not bear removing, but broke up into small fragments as soon as they were dug out and handled.

The facts here stated must, I think, satisfactorily prove that these shells have been accumulated in the position they are now found in by the cause and in the manner here assigned. This deposit is one of the latest, if not the very latest, prior to the last elevation of this part of the South-African coast, and must have immediately preceded the present order of things. Since that time a gradual emergence of at least 150 feet must have taken place — since the ocean- waves broke upon and wore away the sloping quartzite rocks before mentioned.

Table of Postpliocene and Recent Deposits between Port Elizabeth and the Zwartkops.

Feet.

20 to 30

30 to 100

About 25

Exposed 6

15 to 18

18 to 20

18

Name.

Shell-deposits with bones and fossil wood.

Red clay.

Shell-bank at Zwartkops Bridge.

Raised beach near the Zwartkops mouth.

Shell-bank at Ferreira's River.

Drift and gravel upon which one portion of the last shell-bank rests.

Strata at the Bight, Port Elizabeth.

Remarks.

Raised 60 or 70 feet above the present level of the sea. All the shells are the same as those now found on the South- African coast.

Panopoea, Tapes, Solen, Mactra, &c.

All the shells broken.

All the shells perfect. Loripes, Tapes, Cardium, Cerithium, &c.

Angular pieces of quartzite, intermixed.

Akera, Cerithium, &c. &c.