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Fig. 209. 



of deer, boars, &c., were discovered at the same time ; also 

 several fragments of pottery of ancient British manu- 

 facture. 1 ' Mr. Woods also conjectures that the conflicts of 

 the first settlers with the Uri might have given rise to the 

 traditionary legends of the great Dun Cow of Gruy, Earl of 

 Warwick. 



To return, however, to more 

 positive testimony of the great 

 Urus as a British quadruped ; I may 

 first mention that the most com- 

 plete series of the bones of one and 

 the same skeleton of this extinct 

 species is preserved in the private 

 collection of Mr. Wickham Flower ; 

 they were obtained from the drift 

 overlying the London clay at Herne 

 Bay. The skull is not so entire as 

 that in the British Museum, but it 

 presents larger dimensions. 



The length of each horn-core along 

 the outer curve is three feet three 

 inches ; the circumference of the core 

 at its base eighteen inches ten lines ; 

 the longest diameter of the base six 

 inches and a half; the chord of the 

 arc described by the core is seven 

 inches and a quarter ; from the middle 

 line of the forehead to the tip of 

 Metatarsus. Bos primigenius. the core is two feet two inches. The 

 Grays. length of the lower jaw of this 



specimen is one foot eight inches ; that of the series of 

 molar teeth seven inches. All the true vertebrae, except 

 the atlas, appear to have been recovered, and they include 



