82 Mr. R. Taylor on Cromer Cliff's. 



The opinion there entertained that this osseous stratum is 

 an extension of the Harwich bed, containing similar remains, 

 has been very recently confirmed by the knowledge that large 

 bones have been collected at Ormesby in Norfolk, and Corton 

 in Suffolk ; elephants' teeth near Southwold ; and recently 

 elephants' teeth are stated to have been raised by the fisher- 

 men in their nets off Yarmouth. It was to be expected in 

 the low ground, between Caister and Gorleston, originally co- 

 vered by the sea, that this stratum, although continuous, was 

 situated considerably below the low-water mark. The same 

 observation applies in passing Winterton, northward, towards 

 Happisburgh ; along which line this stratum is in general only 

 to be traced by its debris thrown upon the beach. 



Besides the bones which are above noticed and those formerly 

 mentioned in Phil. Mag. vol. lx. p. 82, a small tusk has been re- 

 cently taken out of the ferruginous stratum near Happisburgh. 

 I have also in my possession many mineralized bones, which 

 at different times have been entangled in the nets of the fisher- 

 men, at a considerable distance at sea, opposite the Norfolk 

 cliffs, towards Happisburgh ; affording an additional proof of 

 the great space over which this osseous deposit has extended. 

 Of these animal remains no arrangement or scientific exami- 

 nation has at present been attempted ; nor can I here venture 

 to describe them but in general terms. They appear to be re- 

 ferable, chiefly, to species of the elephant, the ox, and the elk ; 

 consisting of 



Two vertebrae, about six inches in diameter. 



Fragment of a tusk which, if entire, would have measured 



six inches diameter. 

 Twelve teeth, or fragments of teeth, of elephants. 

 One fragment — probably the superior part of the femur of 



the elephant, the greatest width being eight inches. 

 Several portions of bone, detached fragments of the larger 



bones, perhaps, of elephants. 

 One horn, eleven or twelve inches long, and about ten 

 inches in its greatest circumference ; probably of an ani- 

 mal of the ox kind, — but I am not able to determine. 

 The upper portion of the skull apparently of the large fossil 

 elk, the " ccrf a bois gigantesque " of M. Cuvier ; width of 

 the front six inches ; circumference of the beam of the 

 horn about nine inches. 

 A part of the horn of a similar animal, the brow-antler 



broken off; measures eight inches and a half. 

 Part of the forehead and commencement of the horns of a 

 smaller species of elk. — In four specimens of this portion 



of 



