430 sus. 
The usual situation of bones of the Hog is that men- 
tioned by Cuvier, viz., in peat-bogs. In the Norwich 
Museum is preserved the anterior part of the lower jaw of 
a Hog, which was found four or five feet below the surface 
in peat-bog upon drift gravel in Norfolk. 
A molar tooth with the upper and lower tusks of a 
Wild Boar have been found associated with remains of 
the Wolf, Beaver, Goat, Roebuck, and large Red Deer in 
freshwater marl, underlying a bed of peat ten feet thick, 
itself covered in some places by the same thickness of shell- 
mar] and alluvium, at Newbury, Berkshire. 
In the most recent deposits where the remains of the 
Hog are usually met with, their identity with the Sus 
scrofa is unequivocal. I have received from Dr. Richard- 
son a collection of bones, not much altered by time, from 
a gravel-pit in Lincolnshire, near the boundary between 
the parishes of Croft and Ikeness; among these were 
remains of the common Hog. 
The tusks and molar teeth of a Boar, which were dis- 
covered ten feet below the surface of a peat-bog, near 
Abingdon, Berkshire, were associated with enormous 
quantities of hazel-nuts in a blackened or charred state, 
the whole resting on a layer of sand which was traced 
extending eighteen feet horizontally. 
These specimens are preserved in the Museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons; they were presented to John 
Hunter, by Mr. Jones, a surgeon at Abingdon; and the 
following letter from that gentleman to Hunter is printed 
in the 4to ‘Catalogue of Fossils,’ p. 2438. 
‘* Dear Sir, 
‘“The under jaw of a Wild Boar, or some other 
animal, and the nuts which I have taken the liberty to 
