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Cervus, Ursus, Hyena Antiqua, Hipparion (a quadruped of the 
horse family), and many others; also, the remains of marine 
mammals, including the walrus, &c. The fossil bones were as 
hard and dense as stone, polished as if the waves had rolled and 
washed their surfaces for ages, many things proving that they 
were fossilized in some older formation, and afterwards washed out 
and rolled as the shingle on some primeval beach, just as they 
are now, by successive falls of the cliff and the encroachments of 
the sea, claimed once more by the waves of the German Ocean. 
For instance, the Crag at Harwich, described and carefully 
figured by Robert Dale, 1730, was all nearly washed away during - 
his 40 years’ observation, and all vestiges of it had long disappeared. 
When (said Mr. Scott) we wondered where these great land animals 
could have lived, we must not forget Professor Huxley’s conviction 
that ‘during the Miocene epoch there was a continuity of dry land 
between Europe and North America. There had lately been a good deal 
said respecting certain perforations in some of the sharks’ teeth found 
jn the Crag, which it had been asserted might be attributed to human 
agency. They would soon hear the decision of those well qualified to 
judge. But, by whatever natural agency the perforations were made, 
possibly whilst the teeth were unfossilized, he had every confidence 
that they would not have to put the antiquity of man far enough back 
to require him as the perforating agent. 
Reverting to the manufacture of chemical manure from the 
contents of the bone bed, which is extensively carried on in Suffolk, 
Mr. Scott said: This, I think, is one of the most curious unions of 
chemistry and geology that can be imagined : turning the relics of a 
former world to account, and, with the remains of animals which 
passed away ages ago, giving to our fields renewed beauty and 
fertility. Sowing, if not dragon’s teeth, st least dragon and mammal 
remains, and, instead of the fabled crops, receiving the abundant 
fruits of the earth to fill the land with joy and plenty. 
A very interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. Wonfor, 
Sewell, Infield, Lomax, G. Scott, Hollis, and Charlesworth took part ; 
when some very interesting matter respecting the link supplied by the 
Suffolk Tertiaries in regard to the existing Fauna was given by the last 
named gentleman, who detailed the history of the discovery of the true 
c orprolites and of the phospatic deposits of the Suffolk Tertiaries and 
