46 ~ Correspondence. 
attempts to remove them: and J feel sure that more than ordinary 
skill must have been employed to obtain the specimens in question 
in such excellent condition.—I am, &c. O. FISHER. 
ELMSTEAD, ConcHEstir : Dec. 12, 1864. 
To the Editors of the GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
Brine engaged as Resident Engineer superintending the con- 
struction of the submarine foundations for the sea-forts near 
High-water Spithead, now in course of erection 
mark. under the immediate direction of Mr. 
Hawkshaw, I send you a fossil 
lower jaw-bone of some Ruminant, 
discovered, in August last, in a 
deposit of flinty gravel and shingle 
(stained with oxide of iron) at No 
eon eee Man’s Land Shoal, situate about 14 mile 
ou NE. of Nettlestone Point, eastward of 
Ryde, Isle of Wight. Large flat peb- 
bles from the limestone of the Isle of 
Wicht are distributed through the en- 
tire mass of flinty shingle gravel and 
sand forming the shoal. The iron cylin- 
der has been sunk into this shingle bed 
Surfaceof to a depth of 54 feet without penetrat- 
ae ing it. The jaw-bone was met with at 
a depth of 40 feet beneath the surface 
of the shoal, whilst sinking the cylin- 
der. The following sketch represents 
a section of the shoal, and shows the 
depth at which the specimen was found. 
Probably in times not far remote the 
Isle of Wight formed part of the main- 
land, and the Solent was an extensive 
estuary, of which Poole Harbour may 
have been the head.*—Yours truly, 
Tuomas Harris. 
108 Hieu Street, PorrsmMovurTH. 
We append a note from Mr. W. Davies.—Ep. 
The specimen Mr. Harris refers to in 
his letter has been presented by him to 
the British Museum. It is the left ramus 
_ of the lower jaw of the Red-deer (Cer- 
edhrsenn Glenn veo wna vus elaphus, Linn.), having 5 teeth in 
cylinder is sunk. situ, the crowns of which are well worn, 
proving it to have belonged to an adult and rather aged individual. 
On the inner side of the teeth and jaw are patches of a thin incrus- 
tation of iron-pyrites (which at first sight appear like a growth of 
lichens). _'The bone is remarkably fresh-looking, retaining most of 
* See ‘ Geologist,’ vol. v., p. 453, 
