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On the Organic Remains of the Diluvium in Norfolk, Com-* 

 municated by C. B. Rose, Esq. 



Having, in a former communication, given a description of the 

 diluvial covering of the county, with a list of the materials of 

 which it is composed, I shall, in this division, present to the 

 readers of this Journal an account of the organic remains col- 

 lected therefrom. 



As I possess many fossils from this deposit, at present un- 

 figured by authors, I purpose, in the list of the testacece, con- 

 fining myself almost entirely to those specimens which are 

 identified with individuals figured in that splendid work, *' The 

 Mineral Conchology of Great Britain," by Messrs. Sowerby, 

 and merely notice some species that remain undescribed by that 

 indefatigable and meritorious family. 



The organic remains of the diluvium admit of a division into 

 those of animals inhumated at the period of the great catas- 

 trophe, and since mineralized ; and those of animals enveloped 

 at various periods, during the formation of the regular strata, 

 and consequently anterior to that grand epoch ; the former 

 may be denominated diluvian remains, the latter ante-dilu^ 

 vian. 



DILUVIAN REMAINS. 



These consist of teeth, tusks, horns, vertebrae, and various 

 other bones of the mastodon, elephant, hippopotamus, gigantic 

 elk, and the enormous horned bison, the horse, the ox, and two 

 or more species of deer; they occur in great abundance on the 

 eastern coast, exposed by the action of the tidal waters upon 

 the diluvium, and by the agency of springs ; immense masses 

 of the cliffs are thus detached from the main land, and left to 

 crumble away upon the beach. I have not had an opportunity 

 of examining a complete series of these interesting relics, 

 therefore cannot enter into further details respecting them. 

 The teeth and vertebrae of some of these animals are also found 

 in the interior of the county; at WhitHngham, near Norwich, 

 a tooth of the mastodon, figured in Smith's " Strata Identified;" 

 it is deposited in the British Museum ; a tooth of the Asiatic 

 elephant, with some vertebrae, were discovered a few years since 

 at Narford, near Svvaffham; and several bones, supposed, from 



