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IMBEDDING OF THE REMAINS OF MAN AND [Ch. XLVII. 



of-war was stranded on the coast of East Lothian, and went 

 to pieces. About thirtj-five years afterwards a violent storm 

 laid bare a part of the wreck, and threw up near the place 

 several masses, ' consisting of iron, ropes, and balls,' covered 

 over with ochreous sand, concreted and hardened into a kind 

 of stone. The substance of the rope was very little altered. 

 The consolidated sand retained perfect impressions of parts of 

 an iron ring, ' just as impressions of extraneous fossil bodies 

 are found in various kinds of strata.'"^ 



After a storm in the year 1824, which occasioned a con- 

 siderable shifting of the sands near St. Andrew's, in Scotland 

 a gun-barrel of ancient construction was found, which is con- 

 jectured to have belonged to one of the wrecked vessels of 

 the Spanish Armada. It is now in the 

 quarian Society of Scotland, and is incrusted over by a thin 



museum 



cemented 



ferruginous matter. Attached to this coating are fragments 



Many 



common Cardium, Mya 



from 



incased by a thick coating of 



sea near the British coast, 



( 



'lomerate 



cemented 



form, taken up in 



helmet 



om 



of the sea, 



between the citadel of Corfu and the village of Castrades. 

 Both the interior and exterior of the helmet were partially 

 incrusted with shells and a deposit of carbonate of lime. The 

 surface generally, both under the incrustation and where 

 freed from it, was of a variegated colour, mottled with spots 

 of green, dirty white, and red. On minute inspection with a 

 lens, the green and red patches proved to consist of crystals 

 of the red oxide and carbonate of copper, and the dirty white 

 chiefly of oxide of tin. 



m 



combinations 



helmet. The incrustation 



and rust removed, the metal is found bright beneath ; in 





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* Pliil. Trans., toI. Ixix. 1779 



