THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 



AND 



ANNALS OF PHILOSOPHY. 



[NEW SERIES.] 



JANUAR Y 1830. 



I. Further Examination of the Deposit of Fossil Bones at 

 North Cliff in the Cotmty of York. By the Rev. William V. 

 Veiinon, RR.S. F.G.S. Pres. Y.P.S* 



A T a former meeting of the Society, I gave an accoiintf of 

 -^^^ the discovery of some remarkable fossil bones in a marl- 

 pit near North Cliff; and at the same time I mentioned the 

 desire of the Council to complete the investigation of so in- 

 teresting a subject, by undertaking a more accurate examina- 

 tion of the bed in which they were found. 



The pit having been partly filled up before it attracted the 

 attention of any scientific observer, and not having been sunk 

 to the bottom of the deposit, I was then only able to furnish 

 such information on some material points as I could collect 

 from the report of the farmer by whom the marl was worked, 

 and from the borings which I had caused to be made through 

 it. But by the wish of the Council, and with the permission of 

 a member of this Society^, to whom the care of the property 

 belongs, I have since directed the sinking of another pit near 

 the former, and have personally superintended the operation. 

 Six or seven hundred loads of marl were removed ; the deposit 

 was penetrated to its lowest bed ; the depth at which the se- 

 veral bones were found was measured, and the nature and the 

 location of all the contents of the pit were carefully observed. 

 I have represented in the following table the chief details of 



• Read before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Oct. and Nov.1829; 

 and communicated by the Author. 



t Fublishfd in the Phil. Mag. and Annals, Sept. 1829, vol. vi. p. 22.'5. 

 X William Worslcy, Esq. 



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