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from the coast, Sir H. De la Beche obtained a tusk nine 

 feet eight inches in length. 



A tusk of a young male Mammoth, whose double 

 oblique curve describes a semicircle, from a bed of drift 

 at Newnham in Warwickshire, and now in Dr. Buck- 

 land's collection at Oxford, measures seven feet in length.* 

 Other tusks from the same locality, present the same con- 

 siderable curvature outward towards the point. A Mam- 

 moth's skull containing two tusks of enormous length, 

 as well as grinding teeth, was discovered in 1806, at 

 Kingsland near Hoxton, Middlesex. The large tusk, men- 

 tioned by Parkinson,-f- which was discovered in the brick- 

 fields at Kingsland between the drift-gravel and a bed of 

 clay, described nearly four-fifths of a circle. 



Most of the largest and best preserved tusks of the 

 British Mammoth, have been dredged up from sub- 

 merged drift, near the coasts. In 1827, an enormous 

 tusk was landed at Ramsgate : although the hollow im- 

 planted base was wanting, it still measured nine feet in 

 length, and its greatest diameter was eight inches ; the 

 outer crust was decomposed into thin layers, and the in- 

 terior portion had been reduced to a soft substance re- 

 sembling putty. A tusk, likewise much decayed, which 

 was dredged up off Dungeness, measured eleven feet in 

 length : and yielded some pieces of ivory fit for manu- 

 facture. Captain Byam Martin who has recorded this 

 and other discoveries of remains of the Mammoth in the 

 British Channel in the Geological Transactions, J procured 

 a section of ivory near the alveolar cavity of the Dunge- 

 ness tusk, of an oval form, measuring nineteen inches in 

 circumference. A tusk dredged up from the Goodwin Sands, 



* Buckland, " Reliquiae Diluvianse," p. 177. 

 ( " Organic Remains," p. 350. J Second Series, vol. vi. p. 161. 



