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I was also Jed to suppose that the remains of some other very large ani- 

 mal, besides those of the elephant and elk, had been here imbedded. 

 This supposition was increased by finding one large fragment, a com- 

 plete mass of pyrites, with the form and external surface of bone, which 

 appeared to be the upper end of an os femoris; but which, either from 

 distortion, or from very uncommon, though natural conformation, differed 

 from that of any animal with whose skeleton I was acquainted. This 

 induced me to be more particular in my research, and occasioned me to 

 discover the tooth which is represented Plate xxi. Fig. 3. This tooth^ 

 which is an upper molar tooth of the left side, is pretty much worn,, 

 and must have belonged to a small animal, since it is not one half of the 

 size of the teeth which were found at Chartham. 



My friend Mr., Fisher, whose kindness I have already had occasion to 

 acknowledge, was so obliging as to procure for me five teeth, which had 

 been found at Fox-hill, in Gloucestershire, with some fragments of bones. 

 The fragments of bones were too small to allow of any decision respecting 

 them. One of the teeth was of the elephant; and the other four were 

 molar teeth of the upper jaw of the rhinoceros, and had suffered a very 

 considerable degree of decomposition. Their size was more than double 

 that of the tooth depicted above ; but their grinding surfaces had suffered 

 very considerable injury. 



The horns of the rhinoceros have been repeatedly dug up in Siberia, 

 and of a considerable size, some exceeding in size those of the living 

 species. 



Hollman and Zuckert had fossil fragments of the humerus of this ani- 

 mal, from which it appeared, that the obliquity of the radial pulley-like 

 termination, which in the living species is very considerable, is -exceeded 

 in the fossil ; and, that the inferior head is longer. On comparison with 

 the humerus of the Parisian skeleton, it appeared that the fossil humerus, 

 though shorter was thicker. 



A. scapula, apparently of this animal, found at the foot of the Hartz, 



