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covered in the beginning of January 1817 by Mr Robert 

 Brown, tacksman of the sandstone quarry of Greenhill, while 

 removing the earth from the rock. At the depth of 17 J feet 

 from the surface he discovered two tusks, one of which 

 measured 3 feet 5J inches in length and about 13J inches in 

 circumference. The other was similar, but so much decayed, 

 that it could not be preserved. . . . The tusks were 

 found lying in a horizontal position, with several small 

 bones near them, and it is particularly to be remarked that 

 several marine shells were found amongst the dark coloured 

 earth. The tusk," Mr Bald continues, "weighed 20 J lbs. 

 English weight, and was sent to the Earl of Eglinton. It 

 was afterwards cut through across, and one part of it is to be 

 seen in the saloon at Eglinton Castle, the other was sent to 

 the College Museum at Edinburgh. The exterior is of a 

 brown colour and very hard, but the greater part of the 

 interior is much decomposed, has lost the ivory texture, and 

 though not absolutely soft, is similar in appearance to half 

 rotten wood." ^ 



Other tusks were subsequently found in the same quarry — 

 one which is in the Museum of Anderson's College, Glasgow, 

 and two which are in the Hunterian Museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow — in all, nine tusks have been found at 

 Kilmaurs, representing, as Dr Scouler humorously remarked 

 to Mr Geikie, " at least four and a half elephants." 



The detailed notices of all the " finds " may be found in 

 the paper by Mr Bald in vol. iv. of the Memoirs of the 

 Wernerian Society ; in the "Glacial Drift of Scotland," by Pro- 

 fessor Archibald Geikie, in the first volume of the Transac- 

 tions of the Geological Society of Glasgoiv ; in the paper by Dr 

 Bryce in vol. xxi. of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society ; and in an elaborate paper by Mr John Young of the 

 Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, and Mr Eobert Craig of Lang- 

 side, Beith, in the Transactions of the Geological Society of 

 Glasgow, vol. iii., p. 310. From these various papers we 

 learn that the tusks were found in a bed of clay and sand, 

 which was overlaid by a superincumbent mass of boulder 



^ ^Ve.rn. Mein., iv,, \y. Q%. 



