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diluvium in various parts of Scotland. Three in- 

 stances of this sort have heen particularly pointed 

 out. One of these occurred at Airthrey, on the 

 Forth, near Alloa. The bones belonging to an animal 

 about seventy-two feet long, were imbedded in clay, 

 twenty feet higher than the surface of the highest 

 tide of the river Forth at the present day ; and are 

 now deposited in the Royal Edinburgh Museum. 

 See " Mr Bald on the Skeleton of a Whale," Edin. 

 Phil. Jour. i. 393. Another consisted of one ver- 

 tebra only, found twelve feet above the level of 

 the sea at Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, as described by 

 Sir George Mackenzie in vol. x. of the Edin. Phil. 

 Trans. The third was found at Dunmore Park, 

 Stirlingshire. The bones of this specimen belong 

 to an individual seventy or seventy-five feet long; 

 and are imbedded in clay twenty feet higher than 

 the present level of the Forth. Edin. Phil. Jour. 

 xi. p. 220. 415. The exact species to which these 

 remains belong has not yet been determined. 



In London's Magazine for 1831, p. 164, the fol- 

 lowing statement occurs : " Mr. Mantell, about two 

 years ago, discovered, on Brighton Cliffs, part of a 

 jaw-bone, nine feet long, of a whale in a fossile state. 

 It was lying included in the ancient diluvial shingle of 

 the cliff, in which the teeth and bones of elephants are 

 also found." This circumstance is mentioned by Mr. 

 Mantell in his Geology of the South-east of England, 

 1833, p. 42. He moreover states that a narwhal and 

 porpoise have been found in alluvial deposits of the 

 district ; but scarcely any particulars are given. 



