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least degree mineralised, and retain much of their animal matter.* 
In the collection of the late Mr. Catcot, in the City Library at 
Bristol, is the tooth of a rhinoceros found in the gravel-pits of St. 
Clement’s in Oxford, and about two years since a large grinding 
tooth of an elephant was found in digging gravel in one of the 
streets of this city, near St. John’s College ; in London also in 
digging the grand sewer on the east of Waterloo-place, near Charles- 
street, at the depth of thirty feet, they found not long ago a similar 
tooth of the same species of elephant imbedded in gravel ; and in a 
similar matrix at Kingsland near Hoxton, in the year 1806, an 
entire elephant’s scull was discovered, containing two tusks of 
enormous length as well as the grinding teeth. They have also been 
found frequently at Ilford, on the road from London to Harwich ; and 
indeed in almost all the gravel-pits round London these teeth are 
found of all sizes, from the milk teeth to that of the largest and most 
perfect growth ; and in all the intermediate and peculiar stages of 
change to which the teeth of modern elephants are subject. 
In Phil. Trans, for 1813, is a report of the tusk of an elephant 
nine feet long, and of other remains of the same animal, with those 
of hippopotamus, ox, and several species of deer, and the horn of an 
ox four feet and half in length, all of which were found by Mr. 
Trimmer in the gravel of the valley of the Thames near Brentford. 
Six tusks of the hippopotamus lay in an area of 120 yards. In all 
these gravel-beds no two bones lie in immediate contact with each 
other, and in very few cases are they rounded by attrition. 
At Newnham in Warwickshire, near Church Lawton, about two 
miles west of Rugby, two magnificent heads and other bones of the 
* For a further detail of the gravel beds of Oxford, Witham Hill, and Bagley Wood, 
and of the organic remains contained in them, I must again refer to chapter 17 of Dr, 
Kidd’s Geological Essays. 
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