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upper part is left, is nine inches. The circumference of the beam of the 

 horn, at its root, is in the Irish 1 1 inches, and in the Essex fossil 12 inches. 

 The circumference of the beam, just before giving off the palm, is in the 

 Irish fossil eight inches, and in the Essex ten inches. 



In Scania (Mem. de VAcad. de Stockholm, de 1802, p. 285), in France, 

 in the valley of Sorame, near Abbeville ; and in Germany, fossil horns 

 have also been found, which resemble in figure those of the fallow-deer, 

 but are one third larger; and which, in the opinion of Cuvier, belonged 

 to some unknown animal. 



Horns, resembling those of the common stags are very frequent in 

 beds of alluvial production. In France, in the valley of Somme, these 

 horns are found in very considerable numbers, either in the turf or sand. 

 They are also found in several other parts of the continent. 



These fossils have been also frequently found in different parts of Eng- 

 land. Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Oxford- 

 shire, and Lincolnshire, are all mentioned in the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions as having yielded these fossils : but Norwich, perhaps, has fur- 

 nished more of these specimens than any other spot in this island. This 

 species of horns also constitutes a part of the fossil treasures of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Harwich ; affording another instance, with that yielded by 

 the valley of Somme, of these remains being associated with those of the 

 elephant. Here, indeed, they are found, not only with the remains of 

 the elephant, but also with those of the ox, of the fossil elk, the rhino- 

 ceros, and the hippopotamus. A large horn of this description is figured 

 in the 37th volume of the Philosophical Transactions, No. 422, which 

 was drawn up by the net of a fisherman, out of Raven's-barrow-hole, 

 adjoining to Holker Old Park, on the sea-coast of Lancashire. 



M. Guettard discovered, between the blocks of sand-stone, and in the 

 surrounding sand, in the neighbourhood of Etampes, with other bones 

 of different sizes, the bones of an animal, which appears to have been of 

 a size between that of the stag and of the roebuck. When these horns 

 were first shown to the Academy of Sciences, they were suspected to have 



