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antecedent, more tranquil and gradual operations of the 
sea or fresh waters have formed beds of marl, of brick-earth 
or loam, there, with few exceptions, have bones or teeth 
of the Mammoth been discovered. 
It would be tedious to specify all the particular locali- 
ties which have been recorded, in collecting the materials 
for the present Work, as yielding fossil remains of this 
gigantic quadruped. They are most remarkable for their 
abundance in the drift along the east coast of England, 
as at Robin Hood’s Bay near Whitby; at Scarborough, 
at Bridlington, and various places along the shore of 
Holderness. 
Mr. Woodward, in his “ Geology of Norfolk,” supposes 
that upwards of two thousand grinders of the Mammoth 
have been dredged up by the fishermen off the little village 
of Happisburgh in the space of thirteen years. The oyster- 
bed was discovered here in 1820, and during the first 
twelve months hundreds of the molar teeth of Mammoths 
were landed in strange association with the edible mol- 
lusca. Great quantities of the bones and tusks of the 
Mammoth are doubtless annually destroyed by the ac- 
tion of the waves of the sea. Remains of the Mammoth 
are hardly less numerous in Suffolk, especially in the pleisto- 
cene beds along the coast, and at Stutton; they become 
more rare in the fluvio-marine crag at Southwold and 
Thorp. The village of Walton near Harwich is famous 
for the abundance of these fossils, which lie along the base 
of the sea-cliffs, mixed with bones of species of Horse, Ox 
and Deer.* 
* The more bulky fossils of this locality appear to have early attracted the 
notice of the curious. Lambard in his Dictionary, says, that, “ In Queen Eliza- 
beth’s time bones were found, at Walton, of a man whose skull would contain 
five pecks, and one of his teeth as big as a man’s fist, and weighed ten ounces, 
These bones had sometimes bodies, not of beasts, but of men, for the difference is 
