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two or three feet of turf, and then followed a sort of white 
marl, where they were found.” 
Dr. Buckland states, on the authority of Mr. Weaver, 
that the bones and antlers of the Megaceros which were 
found in the bog of Kilmegan, near Dundrum, in the 
county of Down, “lay at the bottom of the peat between 
it and a bed of shell-marl, resting upon, or being merely 
impressed in the marl, which is composed of a bed of fresh- 
water shells, from one to five feet thick, and must have 
been formed while the bog was a shallow lake.” 
The first specimen of the Megaceros discovered in 
England consisted of a skull and antlers dug from the 
depth of six feet out of a peat-moss at Cowthorpe, near 
North Dreighton, in the county of York.* 
Mr. Parkinson refers the beams of two antlers found in 
the till at Walton in Essex, on account of their large size, 
to the Great Irish Deer; and I have obtained more satis- 
factory evidence of the Megaceros from the same newer 
pliocene stratum, by inspection of the collection of fossils 
belonging to Mr. Brown of Stanway, in which is pre- 
served, not only the large round beam, but the charac- 
teristic brow-antler and part of the palm, as far as where it 
has expanded to a breadth of ten inches. The length of 
the brow-antler is five inches and a half, but its extremity 
is broken off. Mr. Brown has, also, obtained from the same 
freshwater formation on the Essex coast, the entire lower 
jaw of the Megaceros. 
The base of an antler as large as that of the Megaceros 
has been dredged up from the oyster-bed at Happisburgh, 
already referred to as famous for the numerous teeth of the 
Mammoth which it has yielded. 
Remains of the Megaceros found eight feet and a half 
* Phil. Trans. 1746, vol. xliv. pl. i. fig. 3. 
