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Page 131 - LANCOK. and picturesque caverns and deep narrow fiords alternating with rocky reefs, projecting for some distance into the sea. These are continued far beyond the lowest tide, extending, indeed, to the extremity of Cape Grosnez, under which is the last cavern. It is difficult to state the number of caverns in the bay with precision. Six may be visited in succession at all times, except near high water, and all are strikingly picturesque.
Page 26 - belonged to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world, and to a people who had not the use of metals.
Page 57 - ... towards the back, it was probably some 40 to 50 feet. As soon as a portion of the floor had been reached a careful search and examination were commenced, with the following results: The floor proper was not clearly marked, for layers of black soil, which proved to be a combination of ashes, carbonized wood and clay, were mixed up with whitish masses of bone detritus and clay compacted into breccia.
Page 131 - ... hall, perfectly straight, entering about 120 feet, with a width of nearly 50 at the entrance, and gradually narrowing. The height of the roof is some twenty feet or more, and the floor is strewed with large perfectly rounded pebbles, and large rocks of extremely white granites, although the walls are pinkish and dark grey stone. Some distance beyond the first opening is a group of three caverns connected by a low natural arch, and having in the foreground a remarkable group of detached rocky...
Page 131 - Six may be visited in succession at all times, except near high water, and all are strikingly picturesque. Some are connected one with another by low, natural arches, but most of them are detached. The first enters by an open inlet forty or fifty yards wide, and more than sixty yards in length, before narrowing. The inlet continues in the same direction. On one side, however, to the right, it is open for another fifty yards, and to the left becomes a magnificent natural hall, perfectly straight,...
Page 54 - Arecibo, and probably represents a former estuarinc deposit, laid down at a time when the land stood at a lower level than at present. The Arecibo River meanders through this plain, and only in times of the greatest floods, such as that which occurred during the hurricane of August, 1898, does the water cover any considerable portion of the plain. At the time of the hurricane the greater part of this plain was covered...
Page 28 - Recherches sur les Ossements Fossiles decouverts dans les Cavernes de la Province de Liege (Liege, 1833-34).
Page ii - Mr. Sinel has read the history of his beloved Islands as it is written by the sun, the wind, the sea and the frost, and of their ancient inhabitants as it is told by their relics. He has obviously read aright and this book tells the story as he has read it.
Page 56 - The first indication that the cave was once utilized by man dates from 1881, when two local naturalists, while "geologizing" on that part of the coast, found a flint implement at the foot of the talus, and, tracing its source, came upon a slightly exposed section of the cave floor. There they found flint chippings and one or two bones, apparently of a large bird ; but no importance was attached to the discovery. About 1894, two members of the Societe Jersiaise, Mr.
Page 26 - The belief of the middle ages that everything inexplicable was the work of the Devil, was succeeded by an ascription of all objects of unknown antiquity to the Druids or the Romans ; but to neither of these could be attributed the finds which were being made at the beginning of the...