Se tig Deposit of Bones of the Ratile Snake. 
mountains, which are vast cemeteries of bones of tygers, 
and bears, as large as our horses.” kewell, in 
his Geology, has an account of the entire skeleton of an ele- 
phant of immense size, discovered in Derbyshire, in a cav- 
ernous rock composed of marine animals. He supposes 
the cavern to have been open, and afterwards closed by the 
deposition of calcareous _ forming stalactites ; instances 
of which are common in shire. “‘ Into this cavern | 
conceive, (says he) the sie had retired to die, at a peri- 
ong fter the existence of the marine animals wen are 
edded in the surrounding rock.” npn 
The faeerery of the organic remains of the. ‘tattle. sna ake 
in our neighbourhood, may serve as an additional caution 
to geologists, not to form theories from isolated facts ; and 
that if the bones of animals similar to those which now in- 
habit our earth are discovered, with reliques peculiar to 
what we now cine ose to be” ancient strata, a careful exam- 
mation. of all t th ate the 
cee Bones of hick 0 our ot is built are 2 argillien and 
from various quarries in the neighbour- 
wr fae of these the above remains were discover- 
ed Lam unable to state, but most probably they were inthe 
argillite. 
Within the memory of some of the old inhabitants of our 
town, rattle snakes were common in this ie 3 but as 
in other phe mena the ee retired as the population has i 
regions.. There is a 7 ular 
story among aba that this reptile aivngs retired to his 
siete ees an before the leaves of the white ash ( Reinet: 
bite of the ritshes ses but. “merely state. io circumstance 
to excite further observation 
