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obtained here ; also a fragment of jaw, showing internal 

 structure of one large and one small tooth. A specimen, ten 

 inches by six, showing parallel (apparently oblique) lines of 

 very small shagreen-like scales ; also many " cylindrical 

 bones, probabl}'^ of Colocanth fish showing canals." It was 

 near this zone that I found a stone, containing casts of "nail- 

 headed neural and hemal spines of Colocanth fish," in 

 position, as when attached to the cartilaginous vertebra, 

 which has left no imprint whatever ; also a ' ' portion of the 

 trunk of a fish, allied to Glyptolepis,^' showing the large scales 

 in position, and a small fish, " probably the body of a Cepha- 

 laspidan." These, with many Gyracanthus-\\kQ spines, and 

 several other fossils, were all obtained from this bed. 



T contained in parts numerous plants, which here attain 

 a large size, one specimen left with Professor McCoy, being 

 nine inches across, and one seen as a freestone was over 

 twelve inches across. These specimens are found, in some 

 cases, of considerable length. Professor McCoy having one of 

 about four inches across, and over two feet in length ; and 

 longer fractured specimens were left behind. 



v. — This bed gave us portions of a jaw, showing the 

 dentition, and several Gyracanthus spines, with some 

 undetermined structures ; and scales of fish an inch and a 

 quarter in diameter, and teeth. Portions of Acanthoicl 

 fish were obtained by Mr. Cresswell at this bed, near 10, in 

 which sufficient of the structure can be made out to clearly 

 discern the lateral line of enlarged scales ; Professor McCoy 

 has named this Eupleurosmius cressiuelli. I also found 

 portions of similar remains in this bed near 8. I found here 

 also portions of a fish, having the same character as 

 C'osmolepides siueeti (McCoy) ; a portion of fish allied to 

 Scaphaspis, and a stone, eight inches by five inches, with 

 tubercular elevations undetermined. 



The W bed is the highest of the series on this side the 

 river, and contains fossils in some respects similar to those 

 described in the bed on which it rests, and apparently differing 

 from it, only in that it seemed to contain less of the remains 

 of the small and fragile fish, and more of the stronger bones, 

 spines, &c., of the larger fish ; and these seem to have 

 attained a greater size at the period in which this bed was 

 laid down, than when that below it was deposited. This 

 yielded (at 9) a very large spine, resembling Gyracanthus 

 obliquus (McCo}'), about nine inches in length, with both 

 the base and point perfect. 



