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it was 27 yards in diameter; the others were much lower. They 
ranged along an ancient wall, constructed of flints and pebbles, 
which the workmen are now removing. Its length was 4 rods ; 
its thickness 30 inches, and it had three abutments. upon its 
eastern side. Beyond this wadd, at the distance of 12 rods tothe 
east, was found an ancient well made with clunch, 9 feet in dia- 
meter, full of flints and tiles of a curious shape, so formed as to 
lap over each other. Some of these tiles had a hole in the centre ; 
and; from their general appearance, it was believed that they had 
been used in an aqueduct. In this weld were found two bucks’ 
or elks’ horns, of very large size. Upon opening the tumult, the 
workmen remioved, from the larger one, four human skeletons, 
which were found iying upon their backs, about two feet from the 
bottom. Some broken pieces of terra cotta, with red and with 
black glazing, were found in opening the ¢wmulz, heaped among 
the earth, which, from the nature of the workmanship, seemed’ 
to be Roman, but this is uncertain. In opening the northern ¢z- 
mulus, and in removing the wall upon its eastern side, such an 
innumerable quantity of the bonesof a small quadruped was found, 
that they were actually stratified to the depth of four inches, so 
that the workmen took out whole shovels filled with these bones ; 
and the same were also found near other sepulchres about a 
hundred yards to the north of The Chronicle Hills. The most 
singular circumstance is, that there is no hving animal now in 
the country, to which these bones, thus deposited by millions, may 
be anatomically referred. The bones of the jaw correspond with 
those of the castor, or beaver, as found in a fossil state in the 
bogs near Chatteris ; but the first are incomparably smaller. Like 
those of the beaver they are furnished with two upper and two 
Jower incisors, and with four grinders on each side, Nothing like 
these minute bones has, however, been yet known to exist in a 
fossil state. One of the Professors of this University, after a care- 
ful examination of the spot, believing them to have belonged to 
’ the Lemming, which sometimesdescends in moving myriads from 
the mountains of Lapland, transmitted several of them to London 
to Sir Joseph Banks, and to Sir Everard Home, who have con- 
firmed his conjecture. According to these gentlemen, there exists 
at present a creature of this species called'a Shrew Mouse, which 
is exceedingly destructive to young plantations. About two years 
ago the Commissioners of Forests wrote to Sir Joseph Banks to 
know what could be done to get rid of them. A colony of these 
animals may have been hemmed in by some flood, and, being all 
of them drowned, were perhaps thus huddled together m one 
spot. 
Before we conclude this article, we have also to add, that about 
100 yards from thenorth of The Chronicle Hills, there were found 
two 
