. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . 2nd. Transverse Section 1. Recent. a. Vegetable earth. b. Transported earth. II. Diluvian formation (clysmien Br.). A. First bed. 1 1. Mixture of rolled silex and clay. 2. Lumps and oblique veins of white sand, mixed with gravel andsilex. 3. Bed of ferruginous diluvian grit. Sand agglutinated by a cementof hydrated iron. B. Second bed. (Detritique Brong.) 1. Masses of rolled silex, mixed with gra
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . 2nd. Transverse Section 1. Recent. a. Vegetable earth. b. Transported earth. II. Diluvian formation (clysmien Br.). A. First bed. 1 1. Mixture of rolled silex and clay. 2. Lumps and oblique veins of white sand, mixed with gravel andsilex. 3. Bed of ferruginous diluvian grit. Sand agglutinated by a cementof hydrated iron. B. Second bed. (Detritique Brong.) 1. Masses of rolled silex, mixed with gravel. 2. Sinuous band of silex (rolled) in black sand. 3. Mass of silex and gravel, in brown ferruginous Celtic instruments contained in themass of silex, covered with fer-ruginous sand ; one set 3\ metresbelow the surface, the other at5 metres 60 centimetres. * Boucher, Plate III — Abbeville ramparts. Fio. 208. 1 ~n a r^ ° * m 5s-* r n 364 GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY,
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