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first of these 18 the Rhinoceros. We would note localities where 

 this pachyderui has beei^ found. Owen informcus thatthe first 

 notice of remains referable to the Rhinoceros occurs in a rare old 

 tract : Ghartham News, or a brief relation of some strange 

 bones lately dug up in the grounds of Mr. John Somner of 

 Canterbury, etc, printed for Garthwait in 1669. An upper 

 molar of the remains described and speculated upon in this 

 t"ict, belonged to lihitioceros tichorhinus or the two horned 

 Rhinoceros, the formation to which it belongs is *.* upper 

 miocene," newer pliocene, or pleistocene (Synonyms). Other 

 remains are a portion of the skull, also figured by Owen. They 

 were found in the post-pliocene b"ick earth of Kent, Surrey and 

 Essex which have yielded a rich harvest of great extinct pachy- 

 derms. Cuvier concludes from a certain peciUiarity of structure 

 that this Rhinoceros had more formidable nasal weapons than 

 any of the known existing species, having two horns. Dr. 

 Buckland had specimens of the skulls and other bones of the 

 same species which were found on the banks of the Avon at 

 Lawford !iear Rugby. The most complete skeletons have been 

 found in caverns or cavernous fissures, e. g., a cave near Weiks- 

 worth, Derbyshire, and the Cave, Kent's Hole, Torquay. 

 Another species — loptorhinus, has been found at Clacton, Essex. 

 The remains of this have been very abundant. There were 

 discovered remains in the iresh water pliocene deposits, already 

 noticed by John Brown, F. G. S. Owen farther observes : 

 This peculiar form of Pachyderm appears to have been confined 

 from its first introduction into our planet, to the same great 

 natural division of the diy land — the Old W'^'-'d of the 

 Geogra[)hers — to which the existing representatives of that form 

 are still peculiar. The next of the associates of mamnoth, 

 which we would briefly notice is the Hinpopolanius major. 

 Remains of this pachyderm have been found Mn the same 

 deposits that yielded the remains of Rhinoceros. They have 

 been found in Walton, Essex, at Chartham, at Brentford, at 

 Clacton, in the Kirkdale Cave and the Aire River, Lancashire. 

 Fossil remains of Hippopotamtis major have been found in 

 considerable abundance in the fresh ^sater formation that over- 

 lies the Norwich Crag on the eastern coast of Norfolk. Associated 

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