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of the spine an enormous head with a pair of large and widely 
curving horns, we may form some idea of the formidable ap- 
pearance that this extinct animal must have presented when, 
in the full vigour of its existence, it roamed unfettered through 
its native forests. 
The other fossil remains, of which I have specimens, w^ere 
found at diiOferent periods in the north-western division of the 
county of Lancaster. They were not obtained in the same 
locality, but at places several miles apart from each other ; 
some being found in the district of Pilling, in the immediate 
neighbourhood of the mouth of the river Wyre, others close to 
the tow^n of Preston. From information with which I have 
been supplied, I think it probable that the stratum in which 
they were imbedded was of the same nature, consisting of sand 
and gravel, lying immediately beneath the peat. 
The specimens from Pilling consist of a large vertebra and 
a tooth. They were transmitted to me by the Eev. J. D. 
Banister, the incumbent of that district, a gentleman who, for 
a long series of years, has paid great attention to the natural 
history of the locality, and who carefully preserves any object 
of interest which may fall in his path. I have been favoured 
by Mr Banister with the following particulars of the deposit 
in which they were found: — "Pilling Moss is an extensive 
post-tertiary fresh-water deposit, situated between the mouths 
of the rivers Wyre and Cocker. It forms the present coast- 
line between these rivers, and is bounded on the land side by 
an ancient sea-beach, distant, on an average, two miles from 
the present sea-beach. The surface consists for the most 
part of fine corn land, and beneath this the following layers 
may be observed :— 
" Ist^ Grey bog moss, generally the growth of Sphagnum. 
" 2d, A darker and more solid bog, towards the bottom of 
which there is much wood. 
" ScZ, Carre^ or original soil, in which are the roots of the 
trees of the ancient forest. In this numerous ancient im- 
plements have been found 2 J feet deep. 
" 4//i, Clay, varying in thickness from two to six feet. 
Blue silt, or finely comminuted sand. 
" It is in the last of these deposits that the bone and tooth 
