es, fixed at about 800,000 years ago,but in the fourth edition of his Antiquity of Man,he modifies this estimate considerably, and accepts thefigures of Sir John Lubbock, which fix the GlacialEpoch at about 200,000 years ago. It may assist the reader to lay before him thefollowing diagram from Sir… … \ Xv The peat Xo. i, he says, has been formed in alow part of the modern alluvial plain, in parts of whichgravel No. 2 of the recent period is seen. Over thisgravel the loam or fine sediment 2, has in many placesbeen deposited by the river during floods which coverednearly the whole alluvial plain.…
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