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Cadibona, a village at the foot of the great Apennine Chain, and is 

 described and figured in the 'Ossemens Fossiles,' ed. 1822, torn. iii. 

 p. 398, pi. lxxx. fig. 2. Presented by Baron Cuvier. 



Genus Sus. 



1077- Two of the inferior incisors of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa, Linn.). 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1078. The right and left lower canines of the same Wild Boar. 



These specimens and the quantity of hazel nuts preserved with them, 

 were transmitted to Mr. Hunter by Mr. Jones, with the following memo- 

 randum : — 



" Dear Sir, 



" The under jaw of a Wild Boar or some other animal and the 

 nuts, which I have taken the liberty to inclose in the box, were a few 

 days since found about ten feet under ground by a labourer as he was 

 digging peat or turf. 



" Several single tusks have been found, and they were all worn in 

 the manner you will observe these to be at the extremities ; and the 

 quantity of nuts were very considerable : they seemed to lay in a layer 

 of white sand between the strata of peat. From whence could they 

 come ? Is it possible they could remain there ever since the Deluge ? 



(Signed) " W. Jones." 



" Abingdon, Berks, 

 May 23rd, 1787." 



" The layer of sand and nuts extended upwards of eighteen feet horizontally." 



1079. The left inferior tusk of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa). It was exhumed 

 eight or ten feet from the surface, out of the peat-meadows, half a mile 

 west of Newbury in Berkshire. 



Presented by Mr. Alexander, Surgeon, Newbury. 



A good account of this locality, under the name of the ' Peat-pit near 

 Newbury,' is contained in a Letter dated February 24th, 1757, from 



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