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THE UPNOR ELEPHANT 
over and the other side cleared from matrix so far as seemed safe. Then this side 
was covered with canvas and plaster, the wrappings overlapping those of the 
opposite side so that the whole bone was eventually enclosed in a case which set 
very hard, and even if it did not prevent some fractures in the course of transport, 
it retained the fragments in their relative positions. 
The beds in which the bones were found were deposited by the river against 
a low cliff consisting of chalk with a capping of Thanet Sands. The section near 
the cliff face is : 
(1) Sandy clay passing into 
(2) Current bedded sand 
(3) Clay with rounded pebbles at the top 
(4) Whitish grey sand, passing into 
(5) Yellow clayey sand with pebbles at the bottom 
(6) Clay parting with flints at the bottom 
(7) Sharp gravel with angular and rounded flints (flakes) 
thickening towards the S.S.E. . . . . . . 6 in. to 
(8) Clay with much race, numerous flints (rounded and angular), 
sand, ironstone passing down to clay with large flints. The 
bones occurred at the bottom of this layer 
ft. ins. 
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1 4 
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