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ments of bone, not yet satisfactorily identified ; numerous 

 fishes' teeth, of the genus Lamna ; and a specimen of Turbi- 

 nolia. The teeth possess the sharpness of recent specimens, 

 and were probably quietly deposited in their present locality, 

 but the coral has undergone so much bouldering as to destroy 

 its character, and defy identification. 



The bed whence these remains were obtained is a whit- 

 ish sand beneath a stratum of tenacious blue clay, situated 

 by the side of the river, about a mile from Woodbridge, in a 

 parish commonly called Kyson. This clay may be traced 

 beneath the crag not more than twenty yards from the pit, 

 and is a continuation of the same bed which extends over a 

 large portion of the eastern side of the county of Suffolk. — 

 Sections of this clay, with overlying crag, may be seen at 

 Sutton, Bawdsey, Felixstow, &c; and although, in all my 

 searching for fossils I have never been able to detect a single 

 shell in the clay deposit, the Septarice which are dredged up 

 off Harwich contain shells that have been identified with 

 those of the London clay : and it is fair to assume that as 

 part of the bed connecting this clay at Felixstow and Wal- 

 ton-on-the-Naze, there is little doubt of its belonging to the 

 eocene period ; but at Kyson, which is one of the western li- 

 mits of the crag, the beds become more irregular, and the 

 shells are much comminuted ; and at Hasketon, scarcely two 

 miles further westward, the clay assumes a different charac- 

 ter, being mixed with the detritus of the older rocks. I have 

 there picked up shells of the Echini filled with chalk. The 

 only doubt respecting the bed at Kingston would be whether 

 it could at all belong to that extensive diluvial deposit which 

 approaches so near ; as this fossil certainly belongs to some 

 quadrumanous animal, there is no formation to which it could 

 be so appropriately assigned as that of the London clay, — the 

 tropical character of the Fauna as well as of the Flora of that 

 period, being such as to justify an assumption of a warmer 

 climate, quite suitable to the existence of our. Macacus. — 

 However, I have given you the particulars of its discovery, 

 and I consign the details to abler hands. 



I am, &c. 



S. V. Wood. 



Editor of the Magazine of 

 Natural History. 



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