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In Scotland remains of the Mammoth have been found in 

 the drift clay between Edinburgh and Falkirk, at Kilmuir 

 in Ayreshire. In Ireland they have been found at Maghery 

 in the county of Cavan, and in the drift near Tully-doly, 

 county of Tyrone. 



The celebrated cave at Kirkdale concealed remains of 

 Mammoths : the molars here detected were all of small 

 size ; very few of them exceed three inches in their longest 

 diameter, and they must have belonged to extremely young 

 animals, which had been dragged in by the Hyaenas for food 

 with Rhinoceroses, Hippopotamuses, and large Ruminantia. 



The molars of the Mammoth which I have hitherto seen 

 from the cave called Rentes Hole near Torquay are of 

 similar young specimens ; here they are associated with 

 the Hysena, the great Cave Tiger, the Cave Bear, &c. : and 

 I entirely accede to Dr. Buckland's explanation, that the 

 bones or bodies of these young Mammoths were introduced 

 into the cave by the Carnivora which co-existed with them. 



Quitting the dry land and caves of Great Britain, we 

 find the bed of the German Ocean a most fertile depositary 

 of the remains of the Elephas primigenius, and they are 

 generally remarkable for their fine state of preservation. 



Captain Byain Martin, the harbour-master at Ramsgate t 

 possesses several well-preserved specimens which have been 

 from time to time brought up by the deep-sea nets of the 

 fishermen. A fine lower jaw of a young Mammoth, in the 

 possession of Mr. G. B. Sowerby, was thus dredged up off 

 the Dogger Bank ; and a femur and portion of a large 

 tusk, before described, were raised from twenty-five fathoms 

 at low water, midway between Yarmouth and the Dutch 

 coast. Remains of the Mammoth have also been raised 

 in the British Channel from the shoals called Varn and 



Ridge, which lie midway between Dover and Calais. 



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