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The conditions under which the remains were found are thus 
narrated. Referring to the stratagraphical question, Mr. Neville 
goes on to state*—“The bed whereon it lay had been laid with 
ferns, with that sort of rushes here called sprits and with bushes 
intermixed. 
“Under this was a stiff blue clay, on which the teeth and 
bones were found. Above this was, first, a mixture of yellow 
clay, and sand much of the same colour; under that, a fine 
white sandy clay, which was next to the bed. The bed 
was for the most part a foot thick, and. in some places thicker, 
with a moisture clean through it. It lay sad+ and close, and cut 
much like turf, and would divide into flakes thicker or thinner 
as you would, and in every layer the seed of the rushes was as 
fresh as if new pulled, so that it was in the height of the seed 
time that those bones were laid there. The branches of the fern 
in every layer as we opened them were very distinguishable, 
as were the seeds of the rushes and the tops of boughs. The 
whole matter smelt very sour as it was dug; and, tracing it, I 
found it 34 feet long and about 20 to 22 feet broad.” 
There were a great many nut shells found about the bed. 
From these details it has been inferred by Professor Harkness 
that the above description might indicate a lacustrme deposit,t 
where the animal, as was so frequently the case with the Irish 
Elk, had been buried, and, moreover, that the lake was formed in 
post glacial deposits. 
The teeth are well represented by Molyneux, and drawn to 
scale. They indicate an adolescent individual, when the first 
true molars were coming into wear, 2.¢., the ultimate milk teeth 
more than half detrited with the successional grinders commencing 
to wear. 
The last milk molars (right and left) are probably maxillary. 
The right tooth is fragmentary, having lost several plates, and 
holds 5 ridges. The other contains 7} ridges, with evident indi- 
cations of detrition anteriorly and posteriorly. It is 3 by 14 inches 
in breadth, with three fangs. 
* Vol. XXIX , page 367. 
+ The term “sad” refers to a deughy consistence, and is often used in Scotland and, 
daresay, in the north of Ireland, with reference to badly baked bread, &e, 
t Geological Magazine, vol. vii. p. 2. 
