1 70 FEL1D.E. 



Mr. Lyell rightly states, that " this fossil resembles in colour 

 that of many of the accompanying teeth of fishes, most of 

 which belong to different species of the Shark family, with 

 which the palatal bones of the Myliobates, a kind of Skate, 

 are intermixed. It is deserving of remark, that in a great 

 portion of the Shark's teeth, the softer or bony portion at 

 the base has been worn away, more or less entirely, as if by 

 attrition ; while the upper part, or that covered by enamel, 

 has suffered but slightly. In a word, they seem to have 

 been subjected to the same mechanical action as the tooth 

 of the Leopard." 



" Newbourn is a village on the west side of the estuary 

 of the Deben, and about six miles S. W. from Woodbridge. 

 In the large pit of red crag at the northern extremity of 

 the village (Mr. Wolton's pit), the crag presents its ordi- 

 nary character of a purely marine deposit, containing the 

 usual shells in great part comminuted. But the horizontal 

 strata are traversed to the depth of about thirty feet by 

 numerous fissures, which are from a few inches to a foot or 

 more in width, and are filled principally with the detritus 

 of red crag, in which numerous fragments of shells are still 

 preserved. Some of these rents terminate downwards, 

 coming to a point, with no signs of fracture below. As at 

 present our information simply extends to the fact that the 

 Leopard's tooth was picked up together with those of fishes 

 in this pit, it might be suggested that the Mammalian relic 

 was possibly derived from the contents of one of the fissures, 

 the filling of which was an event certainly posterior, and 

 perhaps long subsequent, to the era of the deposition of the 

 crag."* 



In the collection of the Rev. Edward Moore, of Bealings, 

 near Woodbridge, the tooth of the Bear, noticed at p. 105, 



* Annals of Natural History, vol. iv. 1840, p. 186. 



