430 sus. 



The usual situation of bones of the Hog is that men- 

 tioned by Cuvier, viz., in peat-bogs. In the Norwich 

 Museum is preserved the anterior part of the lower jaw of 

 a Hog, which was found four or five feet below the surface 

 in peat-bog upon drift gravel in Norfolk. 



A molar tooth with the upper and lower tusks of a 

 Wild Boar have been found associated with remains of 

 the Wolf, Beaver, Goat, Roebuck, and large Red Deer in 

 freshwater marl, underlying a bed of peat ten feet thick, 

 itself covered in some places by the same thickness of shell- 

 marl and alluvium, at Newbury, Berkshire. 



In the most recent deposits where the remains of the 

 Hog are usually met with, their identity with the Sus 

 scrofa is unequivocal. I have received from Dr. Richard- 

 son a collection of bones, not much altered by time, from 

 a gravel-pit in Lincolnshire, near the boundary between 

 the parishes of Croft and Ikeness ; among these were 

 remains of the common Hog. 



The tusks and molar teeth of a Boar, which were dis- 

 covered ten feet below the surface of a peat-bog, near 

 Abingdon, Berkshire, were associated with enormous 

 quantities of hazel-nuts in a blackened or charred state, 

 the whole resting on a layer of sand which was traced 

 extending eighteen feet horizontally. 



These specimens are preserved in the Museum of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons ; they were presented to John 

 Hunter, by Mr. Jones, a surgeon at Abingdon ; and the 

 following letter from that gentleman to Hunter is printed 

 in the 4to ' Catalogue of Fossils,' p. 243. 



"DEAR SIB, 



" The under jaw of a Wild Boar, or some other 

 animal, and the nuts which I have taken the liberty to 



