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Excerpt from The Great Ice Man: And Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man
Pointed out that the sub-aerial beds of the English Channel districts were the equivalents of the glacial deposits elsewhere; and that the broad alluvia of our more southerly rivers, such as the Severn, the Fal, the Dart, and the Thames, belong to a period prior to the great submergence, during which the high-level marine drifts of Wales were accumulated. In other words he showed that these river-gravels could not be referred to post-glacial times. Within more recent years a modification of Mr. Godwin-austen's view has been energetically put forward by Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins, who is of opinion that our palaeolithic deposits belong to a time sub sequent to the great submergence just referred to. He holds that man and the extinct mammalia lived in the south of England at a period when Scotland, Wales, and the northern districts of England were covered with ice and snow, and when our summers were warm and our winters very severe. Other.
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