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XIX. An Account of a ^tag^i Head and Horns, found at Alport, 

 in the Parijh of Youlgreave, /;/ the County of Derby. In a 

 Letter from the Rev. Robert Barker, B.p, to John Jebb, M.D, 

 F.R.S, 



Read April 14, 1785. 



ABOUT five years ago, fome men working in a quarry of 

 that kind of ftone which in this part of the country we call 

 tuft ■*, at about five or fix feet below the furfiice,, in a very 

 Iblid part of the rock, met with feveral fragments of the horns 

 and bones of one or different animals. Amongft the reft, out 

 of a large piece of the rock, which they got entire, ^lere ap- 

 peared the tips of three or four horns, projecting a few inches 

 from it, and the fcapula of fome animal adhering to theoutfide 

 of it. A friend of mine, to whom the quarry belongs, fent 

 the piece of the rock to me in the ftate they got it, in which I leC 

 it remain for fome time. But fufpedting that they might be tips 

 of the horns of fome head enclofed in the lump, I determined 

 to gratify my curlofi.ty by clearing away the ftone from the 

 horns. On doing which I found that the lump contained 

 a very large ftag's head, with two antlers upon each horn, ii^ 

 very perfect prefervatlon, inclofed in it. 



* Tuft is a ftone formed by the depofit left by water paffing through beds 

 of fticks, roots, vegetables, &c. of which there is a large ilraturu at Matlock 

 Bath, in this county, 



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