found in the Tertiary Beds of Norfolk. i53 



was first in the possession of the Rev. James Layton of Cut- 

 field, and afterwards of Dawson Turner, Esq., of Yarmouth, 

 who has for some time past missed it from his collection. The 

 sketch which I have given was taken whilst it was in that 

 gentleman's possession. Mr. Layton, in a communication to 

 Mr. Fairholme, published in his Geology of Scripture, p. 281., 

 says, " In 1 820, an entire skeleton of the great mastodon was 

 found at Horstead, near Norwich, lying on its side, stretched 

 out between the chalk and the gravel. A grinder was brought 

 to me (it is still in the possession of Dawson Turner, Esq., 

 of Yarmouth); but so long after it was discovered, that scarcely 

 any other part of the animal could be preserved. The whole 

 had been carried away with the chalk, and burnt for lime, or 

 spread in minute fragments over the fields." And in p. 370., 

 " Your doubt, as to the great mastodon being found in Nor- 

 folk, came not at all unexpected : I should have doubted it 

 myself under almost any other circumstances : as it is, I feel 

 sure and certain of the fact. I lived at Catfield, in Norfolk, 

 six miles from Hasborough, and about as far from Horstead. 

 From this latter place marl is carried to all the villages in 

 the neighbourhood, to be spread upon the land. A boatman, 

 who was in the habit of bringing me fossils, brought a grinder 

 of this mastodon as a curiosity, saying it had been found in 

 the marl, and given to him by the head pitman. It was the 

 posterior portion of the grinder of the great mastodon (I am 

 certain of the fact), containing, as far as I recollect, eight 

 points, none of which had been cut or brought into use. On 

 the first opportunity I went to make enquiry about it at the 

 chalk-pit. The pitman pointed out to me the place where it 

 was found, and said that the whole animal was, as it were, 

 lying on its side, stretched out on the surface of the marl. 

 He described it as being very soft, and that a great part of 

 it would at first spread like butter ; the whole, however, had 

 been thrown down along with the marl, and carried away. 

 He said he had looked upon it as very curious indeed, but 

 of no use ; and he had kept that piece of the tooth merely 

 by accident. He afterwards found another fragment or two 

 of the bones in his garden, where he had thrown them, and 

 he sent them to me. They are now in my possession ; but I 

 am not able to identify them with the mastodon, as distin- 

 guished from the mammoth or elephant. The grinder I 

 sent to Dawson Turner, Esq., of Great Yarmouth, who, pro- 

 bably, has it now." 



The fragment figured No. 23. a. and b. 9 which represent a 

 side view, and a front one, reduced to one fourth of the 

 diameter of the original, belongs, I conceive, to a young in- 



