52 MISCKLLANY. 



MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. 



Remains of Mammalia. — The remains of Mammalia have been found on the 

 plains of Cheshire^ In the progress of cutting for the Grand Junction Railway, 

 two grinders of the Elephant were discovered in a bed of gravel replete with ma- 

 rine shells. 



Minerals in Jamaica. — The expectations of the Spaniards, which appearto have 

 been disappointed on the first discovery of Jamaica, by Colombus, with respect to its 

 mineral riches, seem to be on the eve of being realized, after an interval of 

 more than three centuries, in our days ; specimens of copper, gold, silver, lead^ 

 and iron ores, of great beauty and richness, having been received in this country 

 from an estate in the vicinity of Kingston. The copper ore is said to yield fifty per 

 cent, of pure metal, and hence appears to be the richest in the world : and a cargo 

 of copper ore, shipped from an estate in the parish of St. George, sold as high as 

 £40 per ton. Besides this a discovery of coal, of excellent quality, has also taken 

 place, and promises to be of vast advantage to the inhabitants.- — Sheffield Iris. 



Interesting Remains. — In excavating for the line of the Great Western 

 Railway, in a field close to the Cross Post Turnpike, on the Bristol road, the 

 workmen have discovered some very extensive remains of a Roman villa. The 

 foundations have been laid open, so that it would be very easy to form a toler- 

 ably correct ground-plan of the building. Two tesselated pavements were dis- 

 covered, but they were, unfortunately, in a great measure destroyed be- 

 fore the workmen were aware what they were digging through. Some por- 

 tions, however, remain uninjured. They are very curious and beautiful, 

 formed of small cubes of blue and white lias and red tile ; it is intended to re- 

 move and preserve these fragments if possible, but the cement is so decayed that 

 it is feared that the tesselre will not hold together. Numerous fragments of 

 Roman pottery, and other relics of a domestic nature, have been dug up. — 

 Bath Herald. 



Antediluvian Remains. — The Columbus (American) Journal states, that in 

 the prosecution of a geological survey of Jackson county, Ohio, the bones of an 

 animal of extraordinary size were discovered. A tusk measured 10 feet 9 inches 

 in length, and 23 inches in circumference at the largest part, and weighed, when 

 taken from the earth, 180lb. The largest tooth weighed 801b. 4oz. and the other 

 bones were of corresponding proportions ! 



