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Mr. Davidson, a native of County Down, he continued : — Many 

 of the people have neither vegetables nor fruit, but live almost 

 entirely on sago and little fish. The coffee tree naturally grows 

 to a considerable height — from 20 to 30 feet. The Liberian 

 coffee is not liable to the coffee disease which has been so 

 disastrous in Ceylon, where, owing to its destructive effects, 

 coffee has almost ceased to be grown. The disease is a 

 sort of fungus which grows on the leaves, giving them a motley 

 appearance like a variegated laurel. Monkeys, of which there 

 are two species, abound in the jungle round Mr. Davidson's 

 plantation, which I visited, and are very destructive to 

 the coffee. Pepper is also raised in quantity on Mr. David- 

 son's plantation, but the plant is quite different from the one 

 grown in the South of Europe, though the pepper tastes exactly 

 the same, except that this is more pungent. The jungle 

 round the plantation swarms with tigers, and I was shown 

 the tracks of one not five hundred yards from Mr. Davidson's 

 house. 



MAMMOTH'S TOOTH RECENTLY FOUND IN THE 

 DRIFT GRAVELS AT LARNE HARBOUR. 



Dr. John Moran, H.M.I.S., then exhibited a mammoth's tooth 

 recently found by him in the drift gravels at Larne Harbour. 

 He said : — In reference to the molar tooth of the elephas primi- 

 genius, or mammoth, recently found by me in the gravels at 

 Larne Harbour, I beg to make a few remarks. The following 

 is the succession of the beds in ascending order: — 1, older 

 boulder clay; 2, coarse sand, with particularly rolled stones 

 (3 to 4 feet thick) ; 3, coarse gravel, with rolled stones (6 to 10 

 feet thick) ; 4, a layer of silt, or rather coarse laminated clay 

 (3 to 5 inches) ; 5, a second layer of coarse gravel, with rolled 

 stones (18 inches to 2 feet) ; 6, dark surface layer (18 inches), 

 containing innumerable neolithic implements of a very rude 



