Capitolo 69
it has to learn a great more quantity on the cause of the Glacial age.
However, we would quote affirmations that cannot fail to thrill
us with the fact that a great extension of time has passed.
In the case of the river Sums we have a valley in of the places a
mile or more in ampleness, and approximately two hundred feet in depth.
This has been dug especially in chalk stone. Taking our present
great rivers as a base, would require from one twos
one hundred thousand years for the Sums to complete this job.<36>
However it won't make to sue the present cause of ours,
rivers as a guide, since we am every right to imagine this
job went in before more quickly very in the past durations. But we am able
the conclusion that demands very long once doesn't escape
indeed to explain him/it. The valley has remained in its present
enough plasmas along to admit the formation of great beds of peat
in of the portions. Peat is formed from the decomposition of
vegetable growth. Its growth is in all the cases slow, while depending
entirely on local circumstances. European researchers that have
peat formation and made a special study it assures us whether to form this way
immense beds as happens near to Abbeville, many thousand years are
in demand, even under the most favorable conditions.
We would still be prepared hardly to be so important
conclusions like the precedent on the researches of one
individual, or in a place. As already determined, DePerthes
made his/her discoveries public in 1847. Still their were opposite this way
everybody that first you/they had been believed, that but few they took the
the pains to investigate for them. In 1853, the Dr. Rigollot, of
Amiens that had been sceptic as to DePerthes started
you are looked for in the beds of gravel to St. Acheul, approximately nine
miles under Abbeville. As you/he/she would be waited, he was
soon it convinced.
Portrait of Flint of Paleolithic, England.------
You/he/she can be said that the scientific world formally accepted the
theory new when such scientists English as Evans, Falconer,