OF SCOTLAND, 61 
Length, , 39 inches. 
Circumference at the middle,., 13 do. 
Circumference at the thick end, 13 do. 
Circumference near the small end, .... 12 do. 
And the inside curve deflected from the cord-line 
4 inches and j^ths of an inch. 
As the specimen interested me much, more particularly 
as it was the only instance of my having found any organic 
remain in this kind of cover, I suggested to Sir Alex- 
ander Maitland Gibson to take particular care of it. 
He accordingly told the workman who found it, to send it 
to the house of Cliftonhall, where he would give him a 
gratuity for it. The workman, immediately upon under- 
standing that Vv^hat he conceived to be a horn, was ivory, 
and very valuable, went off to Edinburgh with the tooth, 
and sold it. Sir Alexander, the instant he heard of this, 
went in search of it, and found it in an ivory-turner''s, who 
had given L. 2 for it ; but, most unfortunately, before he 
arrived, it was sawn across in three places, and part of it 
prepared for the lathe, to form chess-men ; which circum- 
stance shews the high state of preservation in which it was 
found. Sir Alexander repaid the money which had been 
given for it; and he has, in the most obliging manner, 
permitted me now to exhibit it co the Society. 
It is now five inches shorter than when I measured it, 
owing to the piece cut out of it by the turner ; but I have 
herewith produced a drawing of it, shev/ing the exact di- 
mensions when found. 
Plate IV. Fig. 1 & ^. 
Circumference at a 13 inches. 
Ditto at b 13 do. 
Ditto at c 12 do. 
Depth of hollow 7 do. 
