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The only instance which I find mentioned of these remains being found 

 in England, is related by Mr. Thomas Knowles, who states that a pair of 

 horns was found six feet under ground, in a peat-moss, near North 

 Dreighton, in Yorkshire, in the year 1744. These horns Mr. Knowles 

 describes as being each of them five feet and an inch in length, and 

 palmed ; and observes, that they were not at their full growth, since they 

 were yet covered with what is called the velvet. PhiL Trans. Vol. XLIV. 

 Dr. Mortimer observes, in a note to this paper, that the horns mentioned 

 by Mr. Knowles are evidently of the same sort as those which are so 

 often found in Ireland : but adds, " I do not remember to have met 

 with any before of this species found in England, or any where else be- 

 sides Ireland." 



Previous to my having visited the neighbourhood of Harwich, John 

 Hanson, Esq, of Great Bromley Hall, Colchester, very kindly favoured 

 me with a view of the fossils which he had obtained from the Essex coast, 

 as well as several correct drawings from them, and two or three of the spe- 

 cimens themselves. Among those in Mr. Hanson's possession was the 

 beam of a horn, so large, and at the same time possessing a form so much 

 resembling that of the Irish fossil horns, as led me, at the time, to men- 

 tion their agreement. 



At my first or second visit to Walton, I procured the corresponding 

 beam with that possessed by Mr. Hanson, and with it a fragment of the 

 palmated part; and, in 1808, I obtained from the same place the fore- 

 head, with the beams of both horns, broken off just at the commence- 

 ment of tjie palmated part. This specimen very much resembles, except 

 in being larger, one which was found in the canal of Ourcq, and which 

 is figured by Cuvier in PI. i. Fig. 9, of Ruminans Fossiles. The agree- 

 ment is very close between the proportions of the Essex specimen, and 

 those which are given by Dr. Molyneux of the Irish horns, allowing for 

 a circumstance which I did not expect, that the Essex horns exceed the 

 other in size. The breadth of the skull of the Irish fossil, in its broad part, 

 is 12 inches; and of the Essex skull, of which only the narrowest of its 



