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(2) A Metatarsal bone, weighing one pound twelve ounces 

 and measuring eleven inches in length. 



_ (3) A Lower Jawbone of the right side, in excellent preserva- 

 tion, and with all the teeth m «/«. (Plate 3, fig. .) It weighed 

 one pound twelve ounces, and measured, from angle to condyle 

 nine inches, and from angle to symphysis, seventeen inches! 

 The teeth were five in number, and were very slightly tarnished. 

 The most posterior had five cusps; the greatest diameter of 

 surface of crown measured two inches; and, at its insertion into 

 the jaw, the circumference was four-and -three-quarter inches. 

 Halfway across the dock, about the centre, and at a depth of 

 twenty-six feet, the first fossil of vegetable origin was found. This 

 corisisted of a longitudinal section of a piece of the trunk of an 

 Oak, and measured about sixteen feet in length, and twenty inches 

 in diameter. It lay in the gravel horizontally. The wood about 

 the centre was spongy and wet ; but the outer portions were sound 

 dry. and could be removed in strips. The colour of the wood 

 was dark-brown, that of the medullary and cortical regions being 

 almost black. ^ 



In conclusion : — 



(a) All the Mammalian remains were found in the Gravel. 



ii>) The majority of them were at a depth of about twenty, 

 eight feet, just above the Boulder-clay, and within a kw yards 

 of each other. 



(c) The Humerus was ten feet nearer the surface than the 

 other bones of the Bos. 



(d) The symmetrical bones of the Bos belonged to the right 

 side of the animal. 



The interesting question as to how these bones came into the 

 positions in which they were found, cannot of course be answered 

 with certamty. But, as we may see on our own shores, it would 

 seem highly probable that, during the dissolution of some stranded 

 carcase, the bones became separated one by one, and, carried by 

 the tides a greater or less distance, were finally washed up on this 



