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enclose in the box, were a few days since found about ten 

 feet underground by a labourer as he was digging peat or 

 turf. 



" Several single tusks have been found, and they were 

 all worn in the manner you will observe these to be at the 

 extremities, and the quantity of nuts was very considerable, 

 and seemed to lay in a layer of white sand between the 

 strata of peat. From whence could they come? Is it 

 possible they could remain there ever since the Deluge ? 



(Signed) " WM. JONES. 



" Abingdon, Berks, May 23rd, 1787. 



" The layer of sand and nuts extended upwards of 

 eighteen feet horizontally. 1 ' 

 " To Mr. Hunter." 



