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panic, threw the chest with all its contents into the Dove, 

 and it was never recovered. This specimen, with many 

 others, was dug up in deepening the bed of the river ; 

 more than five centuries have, therefore, elapsed since 

 its immersion.* A particular account of this discovery 

 is given in the Penny Magazine for November, 1834; 

 many thousand silver coins, comprising a great variety of 

 the English, Irish, and Scotch coinage, of the 13th and 

 14th centuries, were found imbedded in a hard con- 

 glomerate. 



Lign.9. — Ferruginous conglomerate, composed of beaps and kntff- 

 blades ; from a stranded ship, off hastings. 



This curious specimen (lAgn 9), for which I am in- 

 debted to my friend, George Grantham, Esq. of Barcombe 

 Place, Sussex, was obtained from a Dutch vessel, that was 

 stranded off Hastings a century ago, and became imbedded 

 in silt and sand. It is a conglomerate of glass beads, 

 knives, and sand ; the cementing material having been 

 derived from the oxidation of the blades. From the bed of 



* See the Vignette of the Title-page. 

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