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The finest tusk of a British Mammoth that has come 

 under my observation, forms part of the rich collection 

 of fossil Mammalian remains obtained from Ilford by the 

 late John Gibson, Esq., of Stratford, Essex ; this tusk 

 measured twelve feet six inches in length, following 

 the outward curvature. A tusk disinterred from Mr. 

 Hobson's brick-field at Kingsland, a model of which is 

 preserved in the Museum of the Geological Society 

 of London, measures nine feet ten inches along the 

 outer curve, three feet one inch in a straight line from 

 point to base, and twenty-nine inches in its greatest cir- 

 cumference. 



In the collection of Mr. Brown of Stanway, there is a 

 fragment of a tusk of the Mammoth, from the freshwater 

 formation at Clacton in Essex, which measures two feet 

 in circumference, thus exceeding the size of the largest 

 of the tusks brought home by Captain Beechey from 

 Eschscholtz Bay, which measured twenty-one inches and a 

 half at its largest circumference, nine feet two inches along 

 the curve from the root to the tip, part of which was 

 broken off, and five feet two inches across the chord of 

 its curve. The tusks which were collected in this north- 

 ern locality, were of two sizes : "five of them large, and 

 weighing from one hundred to one hundred and sixty 

 pounds each ; and four small."* 



A very fine tusk of the Mammoth from British strata 

 forms part of the remarkable collection of remains of the 

 Mammoth obtained by the Rev. J. Layton from the drift 

 of the Norfolk coast, near the village of Happisburgh ; 

 it was dredged up in 1826, measured nine feet six inches 

 in length, and weighed ninety-seven pounds. 



At Knole-sand, near Axminster, about twenty miles 



* Dr. Buckland in the Appendix to " Beechey's Voyage," " Fossils," p. 2. 



