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fossil Remains of an Animal. 
The head is four feet long, and all the parts of one side of the 
skull, and of the upper and under jaw, are very distinct : the 
vertebrae immediately behind the skull remain in their natural 
situation respecting the head ; many of the other bones have 
been displaced in a greater or less degree, shewing that the 
skeleton, before the bones were rendered fossil, had been 
pressed upon by a considerable weight, which had broken 
many of them, and entirely destroyed others. 
The lower jaw had been forced a little backwards, and the 
intermediate bone, by which it was attached to the skull, dis- 
placed ; but a portion of it is seen projecting beyond the base 
of the lower jaw. 
The bony sclerotic coat of the eye on one side is entire ; 
that of the other is forced through the nose, and a part of it 
is seen in the opening of the nostril, which is enlarged by the 
bones in which it is situated being broken. 
The vertebras of the back have been twisted, and their spi- 
nous processes broken off ; one of them in a detached state is 
preserved sufficiently entire to shew its shape, and the size of 
the canal which contained the spinal marrow. 
The anterior surfaces of the dorsal vertebrae are exposed, 
and several of the ribs of the opposite side remain in their place, 
connected to the vertebras, with their concave surfaces upper- 
most. Those of the other side are all forced down upon the 
vertebrae, and squeezed into a mass : the pressure has been so 
great, as to give many of them a fluted appearance, the middle 
line being more crushed than the edges ; they are not only in 
close contact with the vertebrae, but are made to follow all the 
irregularities of their surface, so forcibly have they been beaten 
in upon them. 
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