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I have lately been lo lucky as to procure from- the 
fame place the thigh-bone of a large animal, which 
probably belonged to the fame creature,, or one of the 
lame genus, with the vertebra above-mentioned. 
As the bone, and the ftone,.in which it is bedded, 
weigh no lefs than two hundred pounds, I have fent 
you a drawing of it (See Tab. XIX.) 3 from which, 
and the following fhort defcription, you may, I hope, 
form fome idea of this wonderful foible. 
The bone is 29 inches in length 3- its diameter,, 
at the extremity of the two trochanters, is 8 inches 3 
at the lowei extiemity the condyles form a furface 
of 6 inches. The leifer trochanter is fo well ex- 
preifed in the drawing, that you cannot miflake it 3 
and both the extremities appear to be a little rubbed 
by the fluctuating water, in which I apprehend it 
lay fome time before the great jumble obtained, 
which brought it to this place ; and from whence I 
imagine it to have been part of a fkeleton before the 
flood. F or if it had been corroded by any men-* 
ftruum in the earth, or during the great conflux of 
water before the draining of the earth, it mull have 
buffered in other parts as well as. at each end:; but 
as the. extremities only are injured, we can attribute 
fuch a partial efletl to the motion of the water only, 
which caufed it to rub and /trike againft the fand 
&c. 
The fmall trochanter was broken in lifting it out 
of the hamper, in which it was brought to me 3 but 
not unhappily 3 fince all the ca?icelli were by. that 
means difeovered to be filled with a fparry matter, 
that fixed the flone of the flratum, in which it lay! 
The outward coat or cortex is fmooth, and of a 
dufky 
