no OF FOSSIL - SHELLS, &c. 



I have not obfcrved any foflil-remains of cntftaceous and other 

 iiflics with us. 



Thefe following of laiid-anlmah have been found. 



1. The horns of a red deer, entire, with part of the fkull. It 

 was found about twenty-five years ago in the middle of a free- 

 flone-rock near the iron-work at Bebfide, then belonging to Mr. 

 Thomlinfon. It was demolifhed by his workmen, except one Antler, 

 now in the pofTeffion of Mrs. Fielding of Bebftde-\xa\\. 



2. An Antler of a roe-deer. This was found three yards deep 

 in marie at the weft-boat-farm, near Hexham, under the mount 

 before the houfe. It is in my cuilody* 



3. The fkcleton of an animal of an uncommon magnitude, 

 faid in Camden to be Human, but more generally believed to be the 

 remains of fome larger kind of quadruped, facrificed at the altar 

 of Hercules by a Syrian legion in Roman pay ; turned out of the 

 earth by the torrent of the ftreamlet Cor y at their ftation of Col- 

 cejier, or Corbow, fome time before the year 1695. The thigh-bone 

 is faid to be near two yards long, the fkull and teeth proportio- 

 ably large, and the whole animal reckoned feven yards in length, 

 before it was broken and disfigured by the incurious finders. 

 The form of the fkull, and other bones, which diftinguifli a man 

 from other animals, undoubtedly determined the learned editor 

 of that valuable work to call it human ; othcrwife from his known 

 prudence, we may believe he never would have affirmed it, 

 notwithilanding the opinion of the Lord Deriventivater in his fa- 

 vour, who faw it. Inflances of men of a remarkable tallnefs 

 often occur in hiftory. Our Britijh anceftry, the Cimbrl^ were of 

 a gigantic flature, immanea corpora (dj. 



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