J 821.1 Literary and Philoiop/iieal Inte/ligt>)u;r. 3o7 



The Poems of Cains Valerius Ca- other parts of the animal lieen there, the 



tullus, translated, with a Preface and more definite shape of the fragments would 



Notes : by the Honourable George bave pointed them out. The teeth were 



Lamb, are am.ouuced. decomposed iuto laminae, the o.seous part 



Metioirs of the Carbonari and ^emg entirely gone and the enamel on y 



of the Secret Societies of the South remau.m^. ^ ^ew inches m^^^^^^ 



r i» 1 ,.„ .-^,1 o««„,v, below the remains, was a layer ot Hiuts but 



of Italy, are announced accom- lij^,, ,,,,^^,'^^6 teeth were more im- 



panted by Biographical Memoirs of mediately enveloped in a layer (a fe^v inches 



several persons who have lately (lis- ^^^^,. of clean hard sand, such as is gene- 



imguished themselves m the Kevolu- rally found in the beds of rivers ; over the 



tioBs of that Kingdom. W itli an Ap- re,„ains was a bed of two feet of sandy 



pendix of original Documents; the loani; and, lastly, a foot and a half of 



work will also 1)e illustrated witli Por- mould. AinoUK- the loam, near the remains, 



traits, and other interesting plates. i found a shark's tooth of the same colonr 



The second part is nearly ready of and appearance as those found in the blue 



Horae Entoinologicae; or, Essays on clay of Sheppey. Among the la.yer of flints 



the Annulose Animals : by W. S. Mac already mentioned, miaht also be observed 



Leay, Esq. A.M. F.L.S. Being an at- some fragments, from the green sand; and 



tempt to ascertain the rank and situa- strongly'adhering to the largest portion of 



tion which the celebrated Egyptian the bone which I uncovered, wasa fragment 



ln.sect, Scarabceus Sacer, holds among of an indurated clay stratum containing 



organized bciu<rs. This part contains a numerous bivalves. From a consideration 



» . ■=.„., ^„„r.^,.fA,i nlMn <if of all which circumstances, it seems more 



sun mary view and comiecled plan ot reasonable to infer that the site where the 



al the principal afhni les \vlucli Nati^- ^^^^.^^^ ^,^_.^ ^^^^^^^ ^^.^^ ,^„^ ^^^.^. ^^j j^^, 



ralists have discovered in ihe Animal rgp„gi,„,y^ but tl-.at they were washed out 



Kingdom. <. , t. in from a stratum above the chalk, and that 



C.VPTAIN Vetch, of the Royal En- thecranium and teeth were deposited on the 



ifiueers, has published in Mr. Braiide s ^^^^^ ^^ ti,e .,0,0 of its formation, along 



Journal, the following account of the with the over travelled matter; indeed the 



remains of a Mammoth, found near fragment of indurated day, coutainintf 



Rochester : shells, would seem to point out the parti- 



" These remains were found on the west cular stratum from whence they were de- 

 bank of the TVIedway, aVjout two miles and rived — the circumstance of the remains 

 a half south from Rochester Bridge ; at a being originally deposited in a bed con- 

 place where a lateral valley meets that in taining shells, ofi'ers no diificiilty, as some 

 which the IVIedway ilows at an acute angle of the strata above the chalk, from contain- 

 poiuting down the stream. The point of ing a most extensive mixture of land and 

 land separating the two vallies is funda- 8ea,remains, notoriously point out that they 

 mentally chalk, covered vi-ith gravel, sand, were formed in the sea at the mouth of 

 and loam. On the side of the point of land, some immense river, of which the mud. or 

 towardsthe lateral valley, two well marked clay of the Isle of .Sheppey may be given as 

 shelves or ledges are seen, indicating the au example; indeed, were the mouths of 

 different heights at which the water for- the Mississippi or Gauges to be hiid dry, 

 merly rested. The perfect level of the sur- ^e might expect to see similar formations, 

 face of these ledges and the regularity and Accompanying these observations is are» 

 eteepness of their talus, combined with presentation of one of the teeth referred to, 

 their situation and extent, are quite deci- engraved from a very accurate drawing by 

 sive of the mode oftheir formation. On the ]\ir Outram, of the Honourable East India 

 tower of these two shelves, and about sixty Company's engineers. The tooth consists 

 I'eet above the high water mark were found of twenty-one lamina?, but has evidently 

 the remains in question, consisting of one j^st the most anterior one. Tlie diuionsious 

 upper grinder nearly entire ; its fellow in ;„ inches are as follow : 



fragments, and considerable portions of the L.-imin.-r,Ien?(ii of the Inrge.^t S.2A 



bone, so extremely decayed asonlytoad- w.-J mniiber ?i 



mit of lifthig in very small portions ; the in p.m; 9 or 10 



largest portion uncovered appeared from ^^1!:';^ {"n w.' ^\\\'.\'.\\\^!iy.V.ror 8.?5 



its breadth and liatuess to belong to the p pTh '. f-S^ 



cranium, or lower jaw; tVie portions of bone Brr^nltli s.5 



were all found together, and as no other Tweuty-four or twenty-five laminae seem 



remains could be discovered by digging at to be the number belonging to a tooth at hs 



cUrtV-r«nt places near the spot, there is rea- maximum size ; it is therefore probable the 



Hoii toconcludetliataportionof the bones Hochcster tooth was past its maximum, 



of the head and two teeth were all that and at the defiiiiction of the animal was so 



were dcpouited in this place ; had bones of far protruded and abrar.ed, as to have lost 



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