WILD Hoa. AS 
enclose in the box, were a few days since found about ten 
feet underground by a labourer as he was digging peat or 
turf. 
“Several single tusks have been found, and they were 
all worn in the manner you will observe these to be at the 
extremities, and the quantity of nuts was very considerable, 
and seemed to lay in a layer of white sand between the 
strata of peat. From whence could they come? Is it 
possible they could remain there ever since the Deluge ? 
(Signed) ‘“* Wo. Jones. 
“ Abingdon, Berks, May 23rd, 1787. 
‘©The layer of sand and nuts extended upwards of 
eighteen feet horizontally.” 
“ To Mr. Hunter.” 
