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also at Peppering near Arundel, about eighty feet above 
the present level of the Arun. 
Passing inland from the south coast, we find remains of 
the Mammoth at Burton and Loders, near Bridport, and 
near Yeovil in Somerset. At Whitchurch, near Dorchester, 
Dr. Buckland observes that the remains of the Mammoth 
lie in gravel above the chalk, and are found in a similar 
position on Salisbury Plain; they again occur at Box and 
Newton near Bath, and at Rodborough in Gloucester- 
shire. 
Mr. Randall of Stroud has lately acquainted me, that in 
some recent railway excavations in the neighbourhood of 
that town, tusks and molar teeth of a Mammoth have been 
discovered in drift gravel from fourteen to twenty feet 
below the surface: one of the tusks was recovered in a 
tolerably perfect state, and measured nine feet in length; 
it is in the possession of — Carpenter, Esq., of Gannicox 
House near Stroud. 
In Worcestershire, on the borders of the Principality, 
remains of the Mammoth are noticed by Mr. Murchison as 
occurring in a gravel-pit south of Eastnor Castle. This pit 
is in the midst of a group of Silurian rocks, and the frag- 
ments consist exclusively of those rocks and of the sienite 
of the adjacent hills, whence Mr. Murchison rightly infers 
that this extinct species of Elephant formerly ranged over 
that country.* In North Wales, Pennant mentions two 
molar teeth and a tusk found at Holkur, near the mouth of 
the Vale of Clwyd, in Flintshire, and near Dyserth ; they 
occurred in a bed of drift gravel containing pebbles of lead- 
ore, which are worked like the analogous stream-works 
in Cornwall, which contain pebbles and sand of tin-ore. 
Bones of the Mammoth, with those of the Rhinoceros 
* Silurian System, p. 554. 
