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from the coast, Sir H. De la Beche obtained a tusk nine 
feet eight inches in length. 
A tusk of a young male Mammoth, whose double 
oblique curve describes a semicircle, from a bed of drift 
at Newnham in Warwickshire, and now in Dr. Buck- 
land’s collection at Oxford, measures seven feet in length.* 
Other tusks from the same locality, present the same con- 
siderable curvature outward towards the point. A Mam- 
moth’s skull containing two tusks of enormous length, 
as well as grinding teeth, was discovered in 1806, at 
Kingsland near Hoxton, Middlesex. The large tusk, men- 
tioned by Parkinson, which was discovered in the brick- 
fields at Kingsland between the drift-gravel and a bed of 
clay, described nearly four-fifths of a circle. 
Most of the largest and best preserved tusks of the 
British Mammoth, have been dredged up from sub- 
merged drift, near the coasts. In 1827, an enormous 
tusk was landed at Ramsgate: although the hollow im- 
planted base was wanting, it still measured nine feet in 
length, and its greatest diameter was eight inches; the 
outer crust was decomposed into thin layers, and the in- 
terior portion had been reduced to a soft substance re- 
sembling putty. A tusk, likewise much decayed, which 
was dredged up off Dungeness, measured eleven feet in 
length: and yielded some pieces of ivory fit for manu- 
facture. Captam Byam Martin who has recorded this 
and other discoveries of remains of the Mammoth in the 
British Channel in the Geological Transactions, } procured 
a section of ivory near the alveolar cavity of the Dunge- 
ness tusk, of an oval form, measuring nineteen inches in 
circumference. A tusk dredged up from the Goodwin Sands, 
* Buckland, “ Reliquiz Diluviane,” p. 177. 
+ “ Organic Remains,” p. 350. + Second Series, vol. vi. p. 161. 
