Rev. Mr Lay ton on the Fossil Remains qfHarbro. 199 



14. On the Observed and calculated Solstices, Mem. de VInst. 

 de Milan, torn. ii. p. 229, 250. 



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 par la Sicilia. Aug. 1824. p. 137. 



16. Discourse on the progress of Astronomy. Giorn. de Sc. 

 Lett, et Arti par la Sicilia. April 1824, p. 30. 



17. Description of the Meridian of the Cathedral of Paler- 

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Art. II. — Account of the Fossil Remains in the neighbour- 

 hood of Harborough. By the Reverend James Layton, 

 in a Letter to Dawson Turner, Esq. Yarmouth. Com- 

 municated by Mr Turner. With Figures. 



Mir Dear Str, 



Your wish that I would give you what account I can, respect- 

 ing the fossils of my neighbourhood, shall be fulfilled to the 

 letter. All my knowledge upon the subject I readily commu- 

 nicate ; but as that knowledge is recently and casually picked 

 up by observation only, it consequently is slight, and any in- 

 ference I may venture likely to be erroneous. 



The cliff at Harborough is composed of a rich light-brown 

 clay, having occasional strata of sandy gravel, containing shells 

 corresponding with the Suffolk crag, and beneath, of a very 

 strong blue clay. In this, and in some gravel which may per- 

 haps lie below, are numerous remains of antediluvian qua- 

 drupeds, as also belemnites, ammonites, gryphites, terebratulae, 

 and other shells, and large nodules of blue limestone enclosing 

 wood. A thin stratum of this wood, with its bark even and 

 leaves, appears in various places upon the beach. These fos- 

 sils have been noticed from time to time. Parkin, in Hist. 

 qfNorf. under Harborough, mentions a letter, dated Norwich, 

 Nov. 17, 1659, telling of " the head and bones of a very great 

 fish exposed by the fall of the cliff ;"" these probably belonged 

 to an elephant. Mr Arderon, F. R. S. procured many fossils 

 from Harborough and Walcot, almost sixty years ago, as ap- 

 pears by the series of his letters in your collection, addressed 



