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also at Peppering near Arundel, about eighty feet above 

 the present level of the Arun. 



Passing inland from the south coast, we find remains of 

 the Mammoth at Burton and Loders, near Bridport, and 

 near Yeovil in Somerset. At Whitchureh, near Dorchester, 

 Dr. Buckland observes that the remains of the Mammoth 

 lie in gravel above the chalk, and are found in a similar 

 position on Salisbury Plain ; they again occur at Box and 

 Newton near Bath, and at Rodborough in Gloucester- 

 shire. 



Mr. Randall of Stroud has lately acquainted me, that in 

 some recent railway excavations in the neighbourhood of 

 that town, tusks and molar teeth of a Mammoth have been 

 discovered in drift gravel from fourteen to twenty feet 

 below the surface : one of the tusks was recovered in a 

 tolerably perfect state, and measured nine feet in length ; 

 it is in the possession of Carpenter, Esq., of Gannicox 

 House near Stroud. 



In Worcestershire, on the borders of the Principality, 

 remains of the Mammoth are noticed by Mr. Murchison as 

 occurring in a gravel-pit south of Eastnor Castle. This pit 

 is in the midst of a group of Silurian rocks, and the frag- 

 ments consist exclusively of those rocks and of the sienite 

 of the adjacent hills, whence Mr. Murchison rightly infers 

 that this extinct species of Elephant formerly ranged over 

 that country.* In North Wales, Pennant mentions two 

 molar teeth and a tusk found at Holkur, near the mouth of 

 the Vale of Clwyd, in Flintshire, and near Dyserth ; they 

 occurred in a bed of drift gravel containing pebbles of lead- 

 ore, which are worked like the analogous stream-works 

 in Cornwall, which contain pebbles and sand of tin-ore. 



Bones of the Mammoth, with those of the Rhinoceros 

 * Silurian System, p. 554. 



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