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PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP. III. 



Hylseosaurus must have borne a general resemblance to the 

 Cycluras, Iguanas, and other Lacertian reptiles, in which the 

 appendages of the scaly integument are greatly developed. 

 There can be no doubt that the back of this gigantic saurian 

 was armed with a row of large angular spines covered by 

 a thick horny investment. 



HYL^OSAURUS FROM THE WEALD-CLAY NEAR BOLNEY. 

 Wall-case B (ante, p. 178). The second specimen of the Hy- 

 lseosaurus that came under my notice was discovered in 

 a stratum of Weald clay, near the little hamlet of Bolney in 

 Sussex, and unfortunately was sadly mutilated, and many of 



LIGN. 69. SCAPULA ANI> HUMERUS op THE HYL^OSAURUS: 

 FROM BOLNEY, SUSSEX. 



1. The Scapula. 2. The Humerus. 



( nat. size.) 



the bones destroyed by the labourers, before I was aware of 

 the discovery, and could arrive at the spot to superintend 

 their exhumation. From the relative proportions of the bones 

 that T was enabled to collect, there is reason to conclude that 

 they all belonged to the same skeleton. The principal spe- 

 cimens are placed on the shelves on each side the fossil 



