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two or three feet of turf, and then followed a sort of white 

 marl, where they were found." 



Dr. Buckland states, on the authority of Mr. Weaver, 

 that the bones and antlers of the Megaceros which were 

 found in the bog of Kilmegan, near Dundrum, in the 

 county of Down, " lay at the bottom of the peat between 

 it and a bed of shell-marl, resting upon, or being merely 

 impressed in the marl, which is composed of a bed of fresh- 

 water shells, from one to five feet thick, and must have 

 been formed while the bog was a shallow lake." 



The first specimen of the Megaceros discovered in 

 England consisted of a skull and antlers dug from the 

 depth of six feet out of a peat-moss at Cowthorpe, near 

 North Dreighton, in the county of York.* 



Mr. Parkinson refers the beams of two antlers found in 

 the till at Walton in Essex, on account of their large size, 

 to the Great Irish Deer ; and I have obtained more satis- 

 factory evidence of the Megaceros from the same newer 

 pliocene stratum, by inspection of the collection of fossils 

 belonging to Mr. Brown of Stanway, in which is pre- 

 served, not only the large round beam, but the charac- 

 teristic brow-antler and part of the palm, as far as where it 

 has expanded to a breadth of ten inches. The length of 

 the brow-antler is five inches and a half, but its extremity 

 is broken oif. Mr. Brown has, also, obtained from the same 

 freshwater formation on the Essex coast, the entire lower 

 jaw of the Megaceros. 



The base of an antler as large as that of the Megaceros 

 has been dredged up from the oyster-bed at Happisburgh, 

 already referred to as famous for the numerous teeth of the 

 Mammoth which it has yielded. 



Remains of the Megaceros found eight feet and a half 



* Phil. Trans. 1 746, vol. xliv. pi. i. fig. 3. 



