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neighbourhood knocked out the teeth with stones, and 

 set lip the head as a mark to throw at. Mr. Darwin, 

 however, found a perfect tooth, and fragments ascertained 

 by Professor Owen to be those of the lower jaw. These 

 remains were so fresh as to render it difficult to believe 

 that ages had passed since their interment ; and Mr. 

 Darwin observes that they contained so much animal 



matter, that, when a portion was heated in the flame of a 

 spirit-lamp, it not only exhaled a very strong animal 

 odour, but burnt with a slight flame. The deposit in 

 which they were imbedded was a whitish argillaceous 

 earth, forming the banks of the Sarandis, overlying a 

 granitic foundation. 



