PHYSIGAL anp LITERARY. 11 
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Drawings of fome very large Bones; by 
Georce CLERK, Efq; 
ies Il. fig. 1. reprefents the /eapula or 
fhoulder-blade of an animal, found 
in a fhell marl-pit near the town of Dum- 
fries, of a monftrous fize, meafuring in 
length twenty-one inches and eight tenths, 
Fig. 2. isa rib twenty-three inches long, 
and two and two tenths broad. 
Fig. 3. and 4. are alfo pieces of broken 
ribs, found in the fame place; where the 
- whole or greateft part of the bones of the 
animal were afterwards difcovered, but 
loft or deftroyed by the country-people 
who found them. 
‘As the bones defcribed are at leaft one 
third larger than thofe of our biggeft oxen, - 
or horfes, they are fuppofed to be the re- 
_ mains of an elk or fome other animal not 
at prefent an inhabitant of this country. 
_ THEY are juft now in the poffeffion of 
George Clerk. 
ART. 
