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the bridge at Melksham, in a hole sunk in the gravel, and 
nearly filled with soft black mud. This situation he states 
to correspond with the places in the neighbourhood of 
Bath, particularly near Lark-hall, at Tiverton and Newton 
St. Loe, where such remains have also within a few years 
been discovered, ‘‘ mingled with those of the extinct Ele- 
phant or Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Bear, Boar, and Horse.”* 
The cores of the horns measured in their widest expansion 
four feet within half an inch, and from tip to tip three 
feet three inches. The length of each horn-core, following 
the curvature, was three feet; and these weapons must 
have been greatly increased when the cores were invested 
with the horny sheaths in the living animal. The breadth 
of the forehead between the horns was ten inches, and the 
breadth across the orbits thirteen inches and aquarter. 
Cuvier states, with regard to fossil remains of the Bos 
primigenius, “Il sen trouve en Angleterre,” apparently 
on the authority of drawings transmitted to him by Mr. 
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Ww 
Crow. Mr. Parkinson* refers his specimens of Bovine 
fossils, dug up in Dumfriesshire, to the Los primigenius, 
but withont assigning the grounds for this choice. 
Cuvier devotes a distinct section to the detached fossil 
bones of the trunk and extremities of the Bovine tribe, 
expressing his regret at the numerous sources of uncer- 
tainty and difficulty attending their determination when 
unassociated with the skull; whilst he acknowledges the 
great importance of ascertaining the species of Bovide 
to which the bones from each stratum belonged; whether, 
for example, an Aurochs, an Ox, or a Buifalo had been 
the companion of the Elephants, Rhinoceroses, &c. which 
formerly lived in climates of Europe. At the period of 
the publication of the second edition of the ‘Ossemens 
eeOpccityypsel(, + ‘ Organic Remains,’ vol. iii. p. 325. 
