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the bones never having been discovered) this one is entire, every 

 bone having been found, even to the small bones of the feet and 

 tail, and in a complete state of preservation, the enamel on the 

 teeth being as perfect as if in the mouth of a living animal. An 

 idea of the size of the monster may be formed when I state that 

 the skull alone weighs 700 lbs. The tusks are over 9 feet long. 

 Across the hip bones he measures about 7 feet. The position of 

 the animal at death was clearly discernible. He had evidently 

 become mired, and had settled down on his haunches, with his 

 fore legs spread out, and in this posture he was found. Under 

 the vertebrae, the contents of his stomach were found, to the 

 amount of several bushels, and consisted of leaves, twigs and 

 fragments of the branches of trees, crunched and broken up. 

 As the remains were found imbedded in marl, all this was entirely 

 evident." (Extracted from an American paper, dated August, 

 1845.) 



III. Localities of Paleozoic Fossils in Cornwall. 



[12th Report of the Cornwall Polytechnic Soc, p. 66.] 



[The following list of localities in Cornwall from whence fossils 

 have been obtained, may be a useful guide to collectors in a district 

 where, till lately, organic remains were hardly known to exist. 

 The memoir from which it is extracted is by Mr. C. W. Peach, a 

 most accurate and energetic labourer in the field of observation, 

 and himself the first discoverer of the remains of fishes in Corn- 

 wall Ed.] 



The Cairn in Gerran's Bay is hard* quartz, and encloses Actino- 

 crinus (very rare), Leptcena (very rare), Orthis, Trilobites, &c, 

 The same sort of rock, likewise fossiliferous, passes through Veryan, 

 by Portloe, and is again seen near Carhayes, and runs thence to 

 Great Peraver, both in Goran. There is also a conglomerate in 

 Goran, running by the side of the quartz rock, containing fossili- 

 ferous rounded limestones in which are great numbers of Ortho- 

 ceratites and Crinoidal Stems, some of which are also loose in the 

 softer part of the conglomerate. 



At the Van, near the Black Head in St. Austell, are calcareous 

 slates with Turbinolopsis, Crinoidea, and probably Spirifers; and 

 beyond the Black Head, in a slate quarry, similar fossils with 

 Orthoceratites and other specimens of a singular form. The cliffs 

 from this spot to the entrance of Fowey Harbour, contain more or 

 less of similar fossils, with Fenestella, Spirifer, &c. On the west 

 side of Fowey Harbour, from the entrance to White House Ferry, 

 and to the new road, the cliffs are quite fossiliferous, and consist of 

 slate, sandstone, and limestone of various degrees of hardness, 

 and contorted into singular forms. The fossils here are interesting, 



