FOUND NEAR WHITBY. 



453 



bone marked G, which is fixed in the cranium, and 

 seems to be the atlas, was in contact with the ver*- 

 tebrae H ; or whether some thinner cervical verte- 

 brae, that are now lost, might intervene. At any 

 rate, it was obvious, from inspecting the bed where 

 the skeleton was found, that the interval between 

 the bone G and the vertebrae H, if any, must have 

 been very small. 



Another portion of the spine, (L), consisting of 

 six vertebrae, was found diverging from the portion 

 H, K, I, on the left side. These two fragments of 

 the spine are represented in the drawing as attach- 

 ed to a portion of their aluminous matrix, with 

 some broken ribs lying across them. The ribs seem 

 to be slender for an animal of such size. 



A third fragment of the spine (M), consisting of 

 nine vertebrae, has been thrown much more out of 

 place, being immediately before the cranium, ex- 

 tending from the point of the snout on the left at 

 right angles. The end of the snout at B, is not 

 only in contact with part of these vertebrae, but has 

 been crushed into their substance ; both being much 

 compressed at the point of contact. 



The place where this skeleton was embedded, has 

 been carefully examined all around, but nothing 

 more belonging to it has been found, except a few 

 more broken ribs, and two vertebrae. The latter 

 were found in the direction of the fragment L, at 

 the distance of three feet, and, like the vertebrae M, 

 are longer than those found behind the cranium, 



