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Dr. Leigh, gives several instances in which the horns 
of the Fossil Elk had been found in Lancashire and 
Cheshire, in bogs, and also that the whole head of an 
Hippopotamus had been found in the same position, to- 
gether with a small mill-stone, or quern, beads of amber, 
an ancient brass vessel, and human bodies entire and uncor- 
rupted, as to outward appearance.* In another place he 
states, that, on draining Marton Meer, eight canoes were 
found embedded in marl.f It does not appear that the horns 
and canoes were found in immediate contact, but still, not far 
distant ; and if the canoes were actually embedded in the 
marl, then there is the presumption that the Elk and Hippo- 
potamus were alike contemporary with the Celtic inhabitants 
of Britain. 
Professor Goldfuss, of Bohn, records the discovery of the 
horns of the Megaceros in the Duchy of Cleves, and that 
urns and stone hatchets were found in the same place. Major 
Charles Hamilton Smith, in alluding to this discovery, says : 
— As these remains are found almost invariably in recent 
formations and vegetable mould, it would be more unreason- 
able to deny than give our assent to the opinion of Professor 
Goldfuss, that the destruction of this species may be of more 
recent date than is commonly supposed. 
Amongst the bones presented to the Royal Dublin Society 
by Archdeacon Maunsell, was a rib, in which Dr. Hart, of 
Dublin, discovered an oval aperture near its lower edge, 
the long diameter of which was parallel to the length of the 
rib ; its margin was depressed on the outer and raised on the 
inner surface, round which was an irregular effusion of callus. 
This opening, the Doctor conceived, was evidently produced 
by a sharp pointed instrument, which did not penetrate so 
deep as to cause the animal's death, but which remained fixed 
in the opening for some length of time afterwards. In fact, 
* Phil. Trans., 1701, vol. xadi n p. G2G. f Jour. Dub. Geo. Soc, vol. i., p. 204. 
