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- Sloane possessed a tusk, dug up from a bed of gravel in 
Gray’s-inn-lane, London, 12 feet below ground. He had 
another, also, from the county of Northampton, found in 
blueish clay, below layers composed of 14 inches of vege- 
table earth, and 30 of flint mixed with earth *. 
A grinder from the same, and of 14 lamin, was found 
further down, being under 16 feet of veretable earth, 5 feet 
of sandy earth mixed with flint, 1 foot of black sand mixed 
with small stones, 1 foot of small gravel, and 2 feet of large 
gravel, where the tooth was, and below it alone was found 
blue clay f. 
In the year 1630 a portion of a cranium was found at 
Gloucester with some teeth; and a lower grinder has been 
dug up at Trentham, in the county of Stafford f. 
In 1700 several very Jarge bones, one of them a humerus, 
were dug up at Wrebness, near Harwich, upon the river 
Stowre, 15 or 16 feet below the surface, in a bed of gravel §. 
At Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, in the year 1745, 
there were found a grinder weighing 11 English pounds, and 
several large bones ||. 
J have myself at this moment before my eyes, owing to 
the kindness of M. G. A. de Luc, the metacarpal bone of 
a little toe of the right fore foot, found at Kew, 18 feet 
below ground, one foot and a half of which was composed 
of mould, 5 feet! of reddish sandy clay, very fit for making 
bricks of; 8 feet of siliceous gravel, and 3 feet of reddish 
sand, which rests upon clay. This sand contained many 
other ossifications: among others, the nucleus of a horn of 
the ox Kind; and in another pit, in the same field, there 
was found a tusk, which broke upon being taken out. The 
clay contained shells, and among others some nautili . 
The small island of Sheppy, at the mouths of the Thames 
and Medway, furnished a vertebra, a femur, atusk, &c. 
in a place washed by the tide **, 
* Natural History of Northamptonshire, by Morton, p, 252. + Ibid. 
t Plot’s History of Staffordshire. § Phil. Trans. vol. xxii. no: 274. 
|| Phil. Trans. vol. xlv. art. xxi. 
§ These details are extracted from a letter with which I was favoured by 
M. de Luc, dated Geneva, December 6, 1805. 
*#* Phil. Trans. vol. xlvili. p. 626, 627. 
Mr. 
