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to see, many imagined fit for nothing better 

 than to rot and serve for manure. 



For several weeks no exertions were spared^ 

 and those the most unremitting were required 

 to insure success ; bank after bank fell in ; the 

 increase of water was a constant impediment, 

 the extreme coldness of which benumbed the 

 workmen : Every day bones and pieces of 

 bones were found between six and seven feet 

 deep, but none of the most important ones. 

 But the greatest obstacle to the search was oc- 

 casioned by the shell marie which formed the 

 lower stratum ; this, rendered thin by the springs 

 at the bottom, and by the weight of the whole 

 morass, always pressed upwards on the work- 

 men to a certain height; which, without an 

 incalculable expence, it was impossible to pre- 

 vent. Twenty-five hands, at high wages, were 

 almost constantly employed at work so uncom-' 

 fortable and severe, that nothing but their 

 anxiety to see the head, and particularly the 

 under jav7, could have kept up their resolution. 

 The patience of employer and workmen was at 

 length exhausted, and the work relinquished 

 without obtaining those interesting parts with- 

 out which it was impossible to form a skeleton. 



