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in Yorkshire. In the Philosophical Transactions for 1746, Mr. T. 

 Knowlson describes and figures the head and horns of this animal from 

 Cowthorp, near North Deighton, Wetherby. The horns were each five 

 feet one inch long, and separated six feet one inch at the tips. The peat 

 bogs and shell marl deposits in which the remains of this noble extinct 

 animal have been found in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, are 

 extremely similar to the lacustrine accumulations of Holderness ; as may 

 be seen by reference to Mr. Hart's account of the discovery of the 

 Dublin specimen ; ' Professor Jameson's statements respecting the Edin- 

 burgh skeleton found in the Isle of Man ; and Mr. Lyell's remarks on 

 the shell marl formations in Scotland. 



Beyond Skipsea the cliff, composed as before of the pebbly clay, 

 attains a height of thirty feet, but soon sinks again to an extremely low 

 part, where, for half-a-mile in length, a fresh-water deposit is seen, con- 

 sisting of clay, with shells at the bottom. Between this point and the 

 Barmston drain its height does not exceed twenty feet, and is generally 

 as little as twelve feet. Three deposits of fresh-water clay appear in 

 this space, and (at M) a mass of clay in undulated laminae, which 

 recalls the appearances under Kilnsea church. This undulated mass is 

 separated from the pebbly clay by a layer of gravel. Beyond the Barm- 

 ston water, (at N,) where the cliff is seven feet high, is a fresh- water 

 deposit, of which the bottom seems almost to graduate into the laminated 

 clay before-mentioned. The series here exhibited, is as follows : 



Lacustrine deposit. Washed sand and gravel, with some shells. Peat. Blue clay. 

 Curled crisp shale. Laminated undulated clay, with small pebbles. Diluvial pebbly 

 clay. 



Further on, (at O,) the washed sand, above noticed, lies upon a dark 

 peaty earth, which rests on contorted gravel. Under all, is the usual 

 pebbly clay. On approaching Earl's Dike, the cliff (at P) is fifteen feet 

 high, and is composed of sand accumulated from the road banks, brown- 

 ish clay and small pebbles, sand and gravel, pebbly clay. Beyond Earl's 

 Dike, the cliff, seven feet high, is composed of clay, resting on pebbly 



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