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found which may be assigned to the sqiialiis, or shark family, 

 particularly portions of the spine. . . . According to some 

 accounts skeletons of horses, and even skeletons of men, have 

 been discovered ; but we cannot venture to assert that genuine 

 human remains exist in our alum rock. Among the testaceous 

 petrifactions in the aluminous schistus, the nautilite, the 

 ammonite, and the ammonides held a distinguished place, 

 particularly the ammonite, or cornu ammonis.' After that, we 

 must agree with the concluding sentence: — ' Now it will be seen 

 that the Whitby Museum being- in close proximity to such 

 a fertile district, must be richly supplied with specimens of the 

 most interesting character.' 



THE BRITISH BOAT AT BRIGG. 



There have been many interesting relics of the past found at 

 Brigg, in Lincolnshire, probably the most important being the 

 pre-historic boat figured on Plate XII. It is a ' dug-out,' made 

 from a single oak trunk of gigantic proportions. An idea of 

 its size may be gathered from a comparison with the figures 

 shown in the photograph. Another object found was an 

 ingeniously-constructed flat-bottomed boat, said to be forty feet 

 in length, and averaging six feet in width. Still another relic, 

 of undoubted great antiquity, was the wooden roadway or 

 'causey' made of squared planks of oak, fastened into position 

 with clinch-pins of wood, which was excavated in 1884. The 

 above-mentioned objects, together with others of more recent 

 date, are figured and described in a pamphlet ''^ recently issued 

 by the Rev. A. N. Claye, who has kindly favoured us with the 

 loan of the block. We doubt, however, whether the author is 

 correct in his assumption that the causeway is the ' most ancient 

 relic of the past in Brigg.' We are inclined to give that dis- 

 tinction to the 'dug-out' boat. 



A DERBYSHIRE CAVERN. 



The recently-issued ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society of London,"^ contains results of an examination of the 

 contents of a bone cavern in Derbyshire by Messrs. H. H. Arnold- 

 Bemrose and E. T. Newton, which is one of the most valuable con- 

 tributions of the kind we have had in recent years. The cavern 



* Brig-g Church and Town. Jackson & Sons, Brig-g. is. 

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