542 BALENODON. 
between the Physeteride and Balenide of the present 
creation. 
That the fossil ear-bones and Cetacean teeth of the 
Red Crag, have been washed out of the subjacent eocene 
beds, is probable from the fact of a Cetotolite having been 
discovered in the London clay itself; and from fragments 
of other fossil Cetaceous bones having been obtained from 
the same formation. In the Hunterian collection of fossils, 
I have determined five considerable fragments of bone to 
be cetaceous: they were recorded to be “ from Harwich 
Cliff, Essex,”* and were in the same completely petrified 
condition as the fossil ear-bones from the Red Crag. 
BALAENIDAK. 
The remains of great Whales, referrible to existing 
genera or species, have been found in Britain, in gravel- 
beds adjacent to estuaries or large rivers, in marine drift 
or shingle, as the ‘“‘ Elephant-bed” near Brighton, and in 
the newer pliocene clay-beds: but although these depo- 
sitories belong to very recent periods in Geology, the situ- 
ations of the cetaceous fossils generally indicate a gain 
of dry land from the sea. Thus the skeleton of a Bale- 
noptera, seventy-two feet in length, found imbedded in 
clay on the banks of the Forth, was more than twenty 
feet above the reach of the highest tide. Several bones 
of a whale, discovered at Dumore Rock, Stirlingshire, 
in brick-earth, were nearly forty feet above the pre- 
sent level of the sea. Sir George Mackenzie has re- 
* © Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia, and Birds,’ 4to. 1844, Nos. mececly, and 
meccclix, p. 291. 
+ See Dr. Mantell’s graphic account of his discovery of a fossil jaw of a whale 
(Balena mysticetus) in this deposit.—‘ Medals of Creation,’ vol. ii. p. 824. 
