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antecedent, more tranquil and gradual operations of the 

 sea or fresh waters have formed beds of marl, of brick-earth 

 or loam, there, with few exceptions, have bones or teeth 

 of the Mammoth been discovered. 



It would be tedious to specify all the particular locali- 

 ties which have been recorded, in collecting the materials 

 for the present Work, as yielding fossil remains of this 

 gigantic quadruped. They are most remarkable for their 

 abundance in the drift along the east coast of England, 

 as at Robin Hood's Bay near Whitby; at Scarborough, 

 at Bridlington, and various places along the shore of 

 Holderness. 



Mr. Woodward, in his " Geology of Norfolk," supposes 

 that upwards of two thousand grinders of the Mammoth 

 have been dredged up by the fishermen off the little village 

 of Happisburgh in the space of thirteen years. The oyster- 

 bed was discovered here in 1820, and during the first 

 twelve months hundreds of the molar teeth of Mammoths 

 were landed in strange association with the edible mol- 

 lusca. Great quantities of the bones and tusks of the 

 Mammoth are doubtless annually destroyed by the ac- 

 tion of the waves of the sea. Remains of the Mammoth 

 are hardly less numerous in Suffolk, especially in the pleisto- 

 cene beds along the coast, and at Stutton ; they become 

 more rare in the fluvio-marine crag at Southwold and 

 Thorp. The village of Walton near Harwich is famous 

 for the abundance of these fossils, which lie along the base 

 of the sea-cliffs, mixed with bones of species of Horse, Ox 

 and Deer.* 



* The more bulky fossils of this locality appear to have early attracted the 

 notice of the curious. Lambard in his Dictionary, says, that, " In Queen Eliza- 

 beth's time bones were found, at Walton, of a man whose skull would contain 

 five pecks, and one of his teeth as big as a man's fist, and weighed ten ounces. 

 These bones had sometimes bodies, not of beasts, but of men, for the difference is 



