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the work, and discovered the* grinders. I brought tlicra 

 home, ordered them to be washed; and, placing them in 

 the order in wdiich I fancied them to have stood in the ani- 

 mal's jaw, sat down astonished, musins; over them for a con- 



siderable time. That same day I sent for a gentleman in 

 the neighbourhood, a native of this country, and who had 

 travelled much through it, to know whether ever he had seen 

 any similar to them. He was as much astonished as myself. 

 We went to the spot, and fell eagerly to digging. We 

 found a large number of bones, but mutilated, rotten, and 

 broken. It was impossible to handle many of them, with- 

 out breaking them. We found the vertebrae or joints of 

 the back, lying in a row, as they had been when the animal 



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was alive : but the line, in wdiich they lay, run out into 

 the ditch, when all w^as marred j and in lifting them up they 

 broke. We then discovered on one side of them, near to 

 where they began, what we supposed to be the loin joint. 

 We worked very carefully about it j and got it up ; but it 

 also fell in two pieces. On putting the pieces together, it 

 measured twelve inches in diameter. A part of the tibia of 

 this remained ; from the cavity of which I extracted some 

 thick viscid matter, resembling tar mixed with blood. We 



found another bone of a spherical form on one side. And 

 though cut through by the spade, so as the cut encroached 

 on the spherical part, its diameter measured six inches. It 

 appeared to be the convex part of a joint; though more 

 oblate than is common in other animals. The grinders 

 were four in number. All belonged, it is probable, to one 



jaw; two to one side of the mouth, and two to the other- 



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