Capitolo 70
Lyell, and Prestwich brought in his/her favor. Since that duration,
a lot of discoveries of ancient utensils have been made to various
places in France and England under circumstances similar to
those in the valley of the Sums. In their England they have been
funds long almost all the rivers in the Southerner and south-
it departs oriental. A class of discoveries gives there us new ideas
as to the extension of time that is passed from when they was
deposited. That is where they happens in beds of gravel that have anybody
the connection with the present system of rivers. In a case the
gravel's forms a hill fifteen feet stop, situated in the mean of
a swampy district, surrounded on all the minimum sides apartment,
surfaces. Very this way examples could be given; but, in everybody
such cases, we cannot doubt that, in some place nearby, there once
the waters of an ancient river that it equips once hunting parties rolled
along his/her banks, and that, owing to of the natural cause, the
waters' forsook their ancient bed--and that since then then, in the
slow course of age, the action to race water has removed this way
a lot of of the surface of the earth near there, that we am not able
you guess to his/her ancient configuration: we only know, from shed
rolls of gravel of which we am being standing on the banks a
water-course ancient.
An example, illustrative of the great change that has come
on the characteristics of surface of the country, demanding for them
completion a great elapsed of the time, is furnished by the island
of Wight. Now that island is separate from the continent from a
narrow channel, called the water of Hampton Meridionale or the
Solent Mare.
He/she is now known that this is not anything but an old channel of river,
in that the sea has usurped the place of the river. The coast
it is an embankment of river with the usual accompaniments of gravel,
beds, flint improves, and fresh hulls of water. On the beaches of
the island we find the opposite bank of the old river. An a lot
the great changes have had to take place in the characteristics of surface