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which measured six feet six inches in length, and twelve 
inches in greatest circumference, probably belonged to a 
female Mammoth: Captain Martin describes its curvature 
as being equal to a semicircle turnmg outwards on its 
line of projection. This tusk was sent to a cutler at 
Canterbury, by whom it was sawn into five sections, but 
the interior was found to be fossilized and unfit for use : 
it is now in Captain Martin’s possession. The tusks 
of the extmct Elephant which have thus reposed for 
thousands of years in the bed of the ocean which washes 
the shore of Britain, are not always so altered by 
time and the action of surrounding influences as to be 
unfit for the purposes to which recent ivory is applied. 
Mr. Robert Fitch of Norwich possesses a segment of a 
Mammoth’s tusk, which was dredged up by some Yar- 
mouth fishermen off Scarborough, and which was so 
slightly altered in texture, that it was sawn up into as 
many portions as there were men in the boat, and each 
claimed his share of the valuable product. 
Of the tusks referable by their size to the female Mam- 
moth which have been disinterred on dry land, I may 
cite the following instances—A tusk in the Museum of 
the Geological Society, from the lacustrine pleistocene bed 
exposed to the action of the sea on the coast of Essex 
at Walton, which measures five feet and a half in length ; 
and another from the same locality, im the possession of 
John Brown Esq., of Stanway, Essex, which measures 
four feet in length. A tusk recently discovered near 
Barnstaple, on a bed of gravel, beneath a stratum of blue 
clay five feet deep, and one of yellow clay about six feet 
deep, with several feet of coarse gravel and soil above. 
This tusk was broken by the pickaxes of the men, but 
must have been about six feet in length: it had the grain 
