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the remains, occasionally preserved in them, of that remarkable 
animal, commonly called the Irish elk or moose deer. And the 
remains of the red deer also have been observed, in one instance in 
the marl, by the late Mr. Edgworth. There are few of the lime- 
stone counties in which the former remains have not been met 
with. A head and branches are described by Molyneux, mea- 
suring ten feet, ten inches, between the extreme tips of the two 
horns ; but they are said to have been found extending even to 
fdurteen feet between the Extreme tips. A fine specimen of the 
head and branches is preserved at Bally Arthur, together with some 
of the bones of this animal, which were discovered with the re- 
mains of several other animals of the same species, in the parish of 
Castle Ellis in the county of Wexford, about two miles from the 
sea. They were imbedded in marl at the depth of five feet only, 
the surface itself consisting of peat to the depth of two feet. Others 
have been found in the demesne of Johnstown Castle in the same 
county, in the barony of Iverk in the county of Kilkenny, and on 
the western side of the county of Wfeklow, from whence some of 
the remains are still preserved at Saundersgrove ; so also in the 
counties of Dublin and Meath ; and in many of these cases, it has 
happened that the remains of several of these creatures have occur- 
red together. The valuable remains of this stately animal preserved 
in the University of Dublin, contain a greater number and variety 
of the bones than I have seen in any other collection. But, it is to 
be lamented that the bones of a complete skeleton have not in any 
one instance been found assembled together. From what is known, 
however, there seems little doubt that they belong to a species now 
wholly extinct, or at least hitherto undiscovered. Should Dr. 
Stokes succeed in his endeavours to construct a skeleton from scat- 
