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Account of the Fossil Bones ; by Wm. Salmond, Esq. F.G.S. 



The bones of quadrupeds recently discovered in a marl-pit 

 near North Cliff appear to belong to the following animals. 

 The dimensions are given by the French metre, with a view 

 of facilitating the comparison of their size with the plates and 

 measurements of Baron Cuvier's Ossemens Fossiles. 



Elephant. — 2 Teeth of the lower jaw : one almost entire, 

 having 15 plates used, 2 unused ; the other broken, having 

 l^ plates: also 2 smaller fragments of teeth. The head of 

 a Humerus or Femur, broken. 

 Rhinoceros. — 2 Teeth of the upper jaw. 2 Tibife; the epi- 

 physes of one wanting, the other much mutilated; the 

 former 0*28 long. 1 Rib. 

 Large Quadruped. — 1 Vertebra, supposed to be an Axis, 



the apophyses injured ; the body 0*16 wide, 0*13 high. 

 Ox. — Occipital bone, broken ; breadth over the condyles 

 0*15 ; length of the basal surface 0-15. 2 Horns, broken ; 

 one of them 0*1 4 in diameter at the base. 2 Vertebree. 

 1 Radius, 0'40 long. 1 Metatarsal bone. 1 Astragalus. 

 1 Calcaneum. 

 Stag. — Small portions of horn. 



Horse. — 1 Metacarpal bone, 0-28 long. 1 Coronary, 0"85 long. 

 Lion. — Upper jaw, a fragment containing the two great 

 molar teeth. Lower jaw, broken on both sides near the 

 articulations : length from the canine to the last molar tooth 

 incUisive, 0"14<; height below the last molar, 0*05 : canine 

 tooth O'll long. 1 Rib, broken. 1 Radius, broken, head 

 of 0-05 xO-35. 1 Femur, head of. 3 Metacarpal bones, 

 0-15, 0-14', and 0"12 long. Several other bones supposed 

 to belong to this animal, but broken and not identified. 

 The bones are in general well preserved, heavy, and seem 

 to have lost very little of their substance, particularly those 

 which were embedded in the lower marl. One bone shows 

 marks of corrosion by running water, and some of them have 

 been recently broken by the labourers at the pit ; they are 

 mostly of large dimensions. The elephant's teeth indicate an 

 animal of nine or ten years of age. The teeth of the rhino- 

 ceros are little worn by use. The astragalus and the calca- 

 neum of the ox correspond in size with the largest iVom Kirk- 

 dale in the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 

 The horn exceeds in diameter those in the same Museum, but 

 agrees with one given by Cuvier, as does the measure of the 

 occipital condyles. The teeth of the lion arc of the largest 

 size, and extremely sharp. Tlic feet bones exceed in magni- 

 tude those found at Kirkdale (which 1 consider as belonging 



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