trunk of a tree, and the rhizome of a fern found along with them, have been identified by Mr. Carruthers as a pine (probably the Scotch fir), and one of our indigenous ferns, either the male fern or the osmund royal.
Fig. 34.—High Terrace Gravel, Lorne Terrace, Myrtle Road, Acton.
In the "Mid Terrace Gravel" at Brown's orchard, at a distance of about one and a half miles from the above locality, many fossil animals have been determined by Professor Busk, consisting of the small-nosed rhinoceros, horse, hippopotamus, bison, Brown's fallow-deer, stag, reindeer, grisly bear, and mammoth, on a layer of gravel resting on the London Clay (Fig. 35). No Palæolithic implements have been discovered in the gravels at this level; but they have been obtained out of the bed of the Thames at Battersea and Hammersmith, so that man is proved to have been dwelling in the neighbourhood of London, while the gravels were being accumulated high above the Thames, as well as while they were being formed at and below its present level. It may therefore
