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Bays, during the last few years, is very consi- 

 derable ; the examples which I have seen at various 

 times, and in the possession of different persons, 

 must have belonged to between 150 and 200 indi- 

 viduals. And though from their abraded and 

 mutilated condition, but few of the specimens were 

 instructive, yet so large a number proves that the 

 country from which the Wealden deposits were 

 derived, must have teemed with colossal oviparous 

 quadrupeds. Some of the rolled bones indicate 

 more gigantic animals than even the largest 

 from Tilgate Forest, and now in the British 

 Museum. 



The Rev. Gerard Smith, in 1825, obtained seve- 

 ral fragments of bones of reptiles from Sandown 

 Bay; and in 1829 a considerable number was found 

 by Mr. James Vine, near Bull-face Ledge ; the 

 latter are now in the collection of the Geological 

 Society of London. In 1884 Mr. John Smith, of 

 Yaverland Farm, collected several large vertebrae 

 of the Iguanodon, portions of two thigh bones, 

 and many fragments of smaller bones : these relics 

 were presented to the Oxford Museum.* 



It must be borne in mind that these fossils have, 

 for the most part, been picked up by persons 



* See a Memoir, by the Rev. Dr. Bucldand, on " Bones of the Iguanodon 

 from the Isle of Wight," Geol. Trans, vol.iii. New Series. 



