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hopes of regaining home; but the 
weather growing worse, and they 
not being perfectly acquainted with 
that coast, were observed, from the 
jand, all tq perish, without the pos- 
sibility of receiving the least assist- 
ance. 
27th. This morning, between one 
and two, an alarming fire broke out 
in the manufactory of Mr. Dims- 
Fan-street, Goswell-street, 
which threatened the speedy de- 
struction of the premises, but was 
happily extinguished by the exer- 
tions of Mr. D. and a few friends : 
too much cannot be said in praise of 
the volunteers who attended on this 
occasion. 
29th. This morning the intelli- 
gence of the capture of the Dutch 
settlement of Berbice, was commu- 
nicated in a letter from lord Hobart 
to the lord-gnayor. (For particulars 
vide Appendix. ) 
30th. His majesty’s brig Wool- 
wich, lieut. John Cox, commander, 
has arriyed at the custom-house 
from St. Petersburgh, with his ma- 
jesty’s private property, which had 
been sent off from Hanover on the 
approach of the French. It con- 
sists of ingots and specie to the 
amount of three hundred thousand 
pounds. 
By the falling down of a piece of 
the cliff, on Walton shore, near 
Harwich, the skeleton of an enor- 
_™Mous animal was discovered, mea- 
suring nearly 30 feet in length. 
Some of the bones were nearly as 
large as a man’s body, and six or 
seven feet Jong ; the cavities which 
contained the marrow were large 
enough to admit the introduction of 
a man’s arm; the bones, on being 
handled, broke to pieces. One of 
the molar teeth was carried to Col- 
chester, by Mr. J. Jackson, who 
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took it from the spot, in whose pos. 
session it now is; it weighs seven 
pounds, is of a square form, and 
the grinding surface is studded with 
several zig zag rows of lamin, 
which seem to denote that it be- 
longed to a carnivorous animal. 
There were more teeth, which were 
unfortunately broken, one of which 
weighed twelve pounds. It is pro- 
bahle, that the tusks will be found 
by searching further into the cliffs, 
or amongst the earth which has 
fallen down. The above skeleton 
is supposed to belong to an animal 
of the same species as that called 
the mammoth, remains of which 
have been found in North America, 
Great Tartary, &c. Of this ani- 
mal, Buffon says, ‘¢ The skeleton 
of the mammoth bespeaks an animal 
five or six times the cubic volume of 
the elephant,”’ Muller has given a 
description of the mammoth. ‘* This 
animal (he says), is nearly five 
yards high, and about thirty feet in 
Jength. His colour is grey, his 
head is very long, and his front 
very broad; on each side, precisely 
under the eyes, there are two horns, 
which he can move and cross at 
pleasure, and in walking, he has 
the power of extending and con- 
tracting his body to a great de- 
gree.” 
Diep.—25th. At his apartments 
in Somerset-place, aged 82, Joseph 
Wilton, esq. a royal academician, 
and keeper of the academy; an 
artist of very considerable merit, as 
his public works, and detached sta- 
tues and busts, in variaus- parts of 
the united kingdom, and the colo- 
nies, abundantly testify. Mr. W. 
was a pupil of Mr. Delyaux, a 
Flemish statuary of eminence, who 
resided in this country for some 
time, and executed several works. 
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