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tlie attempt to dissect it alike Iiopeless and unprofit- 
able. I resolved, however, to collect the scattered 
fragments together ; and after nuicli labour suc- 
ceeded in reducing the specimen to the state in 
which it now appears. It is feet long, and 
‘■2 feet 3 inches broad at its widest extremitv ; 
but not more than two thirds of the original mass 
remain ; of the other third a considerable part 
was lost, and the ])ieces that were preserved could 
not be made to fit together, d'lie portion of the 
skeleton dis})laycd in the specimen, consists of a 
series often vertebra', five cervical {a, PI. \.) and 
five dorsal (/>, PI. Ah), adhering to tlie stone by 
their spinous ])rocesses ; and of tliree otlier dorsal 
vertebra', which are dislocated, but lie near to eacli 
other ; there are also two more dorsal in other 
parts of the block. Several ribs, more or less 
displaced, are situated on each side of the vertebral 
column ; and at the end of the fifth dorsal vertebra, 
two coracoid bones (g’, PI. V.) and two onioplates 
(/,' PI. A".) are seen : these are somewhat displaced, 
the left coracoid overlying the right, and conceal- 
ing one third of its sternal portion ; in fact, the left 
omoplate and coracoid, aj)pear as if they had been 
driven with great violence against the vertebral 
column, and over the opposite bone, and had occa- 
sioned the removal of the four dorsal vertehrm 
from their place. On the left side of the column 
is a series of bony processes {h, PI. Ah), of the 
form of an isosceles triangle ; they are irregularly 
disposed, yet seven of these are placed somewhat 
in a j)arallel line with the vertebral column ; but 
th rce of the largest and most remarkable in form 
