170 FELID&. 
Mr. Lyell rightly states, that ‘‘ this fossil resembles in colour 
that of many of the accompanying teeth of fishes, most of 
which belong to different species of the Shark family, with 
which the palatal bones of the A/yliobates, a kind of Skate, 
are intermixed. It is deserving of remark, that in a great 
portion of the Shark’s teeth, the softer or bony portion at 
the base has been worn away, more or less entirely, as if by 
attrition; while the upper part, or that covered by enamel, 
has suffered but slightly. In a word, they seem to have 
been subjected to the same mechanical action as the tooth 
of the Leopard.” 
‘* Newbourn is a village on the west side of the estuary 
of the Deben, and about six miles S.W. from Woodbridge. 
In the large pit of red crag at the northern extremity of 
the village (Mr. Wolton’s pit), the crag presents its ordi- 
nary character of a purely marine deposit, containing the 
usual shells in great part comminuted. But the horizontal 
strata are traversed to the depth of about thirty feet by 
numerous fissures, which are from a few inches to a foot or 
more in width, and are filled principally with the detritus 
of red crag, in which numerous fragments of shells are still 
preserved. Some of these rents terminate downwards, 
coming to a point, with no signs of fracture below. As at 
present our information simply extends to the fact that the 
Leopard’s tooth was picked up together with those of fishes 
in this pit, it might be suggested that the Mammalian relic 
was possibly derived from the contents of one of the fissures, 
the filling of which was an event certainly posterior, and 
perhaps long subsequent, to the era of the deposition of the 
crags 
In the collection of the Rev. Edward Moore, of Bealings, 
near Woodbridge, the tooth of the Bear, noticed at p. 105, 
* Annals of Natural History, vol. iv. 1840, p. 186. 
