Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

122 THE LEGENDS.

the valley of the Thames, and before the big-nosed rhinoceros had become extinct.” *

Mr. Tidderman{ writes that, among a number of bones obtained during the exploration of the Victoria Cave, near Settle, Yorkshire, there is one which Mr. Busk has identified as Auman. Mr. Busk says:

“The bone is, I have no doubt, human ; a portion of

an unusually clumsy fibula, and in that respect not unlike the same bone in the Mentone skeleton.”

The deposit from which the bone was obtained is overlaid “by a bed of stiff glacial clay, containing ice-scratched bowlders.” ‘Here then,” says Geikie, “is direct proof that men lived in England prior to the last inter-glacial period.” f

The evidences are numerous, as I have shown, that when these deposits came upon the earth the face of the land was above the sea, and occupied by plants and animals.

Srormon at St. AcHEtL.

The accompanying cut, taken from Sir John Lubbock’s “Prehistoric Times,” page 364, represents the strata at St. Acheul, near Amiens, France.

* Dawkins’s “ Early Man in Britain,” p. 137. + “Nature,” November 6, 1873. ¢ “The Great Ice Age,” p. 475.