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transferred it to the van. The second tusk (removed a week later) 
was raised in a similar manner. 
The treatment of the skull was much after the same fashion, ex- 
cept that a coat of fine tenacious clay was used to fill up the nasal 
apertures and cracks. Over the first coat of plaster, laths and soft 
iron bars, bent to the curve, were fixed as in the case of the tusk to 
give rigidity to the whole. As the matrix was removed, pieces of 
wood were packed under with soft hay to support the head, which 
being filled with brickearth and sand, was very heavy. When quite 
cleared and secured, it was turned gently over upon a soft bed of 
hay placed on the hand-barrow ready to receive it.* 
The labour and care necessary are immense, but I feel sure that 
almost any similar fossil remains might thus be secured, provided 
always the same amount of skill and patience be brought to bear 
upon the brittle mass. 
Mintnec Notes.—It is not perhaps sufficiently known that the 
excavation of hematite iron-ore from hollows and fissures of the 
Mountain-limestone is now carried on to a very profitable extent in 
the district between Whitehaven and the mountains of Cumberland. 
It is the common opinion among the local geologists, who have con- 
stantly recurring opportunities of observation, that the ore has been 
deposited by water, and afterwards altered by hot water and steam, 
or hydro-thermal agency. It is likewise believed that a great part 
of the ore must have been carried by water from Ennerdale in the 
immediate neighbourhood. One of the precipices on the south side of 
Ennerdale Lake is called Tron Crag, and a single adventurer is now 
Langdale Pikes, seen from Blea Tarn, Harrison Stickle is the highest point (2,424 feet). 
carting ore from this crag to the nearest railway-station. The dif- 
ference between the iron-ore-deposits in the valleys and the veins 
in the mountains remains to be sufficiently investigated. Have the 
* The zygomatic arch invariably falls away from the cranium, dividing at its 
sutures; the pieces should always be sought for in the matrix beneath and taken 
especial care of. 
