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where "the rules of geology" had not been observed. But the 



older writers quoted seem hardly to have recognised the existence 



of any "rules" regulating the arrangement and distribution of 



rocks. 



T. V. H. 



REMAINS OF THE BEAVER IN WESTMORLAND. 



A FKW years back the people at the Cross Keys Inn, Cautla, 

 between Ressondale and Sedbergh, had, on the mantle-piece of 

 their sitting-room, the skull of an adult Beaver. This was obtained 

 from some alluvium in the bottom of the Ressondale Valley, near 

 Clouds, and is worth recording as one of the few instances, if not 

 the sole instance, of the former occurrence of this animal in West- 

 morland. 



J. G. G. 



BOS PRIMIGENIUS IN WESTMORLAND. 



In the hall at Howgill Castle is preserved a fine specimen of the 

 skull of a gigantic Bos, almost certainly belonging to this species. 

 It was dug out of a moss near Brough, and is said to have been 

 one of two skulls of the same kind, which were found together 

 with their horn-cores interlocked in such a way as to suggest that 

 they were mired while engaged in fighting. A large horn-core 

 belonging to the same gigantic species of Ox was found in the 

 moss next to Sunbiggen Tarn about seventeen years ago. 



J. G. G. 



THE BLACK RAT IN WESTMORLAND. 



It may not be generally known that the Black Rat yet lingers in 

 small numbers about the fell-side farms in Westmorland. It is no 



