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been the palate of fome animal ; an animal of the 
fame genus too with A and B ; tho’ its having no 
tubercles, and being more folid, (hew it to have been 
of fome different fpecies. 
I remember not any foflil bodies like thefe men- 
tioned by authors, nor can I point out any animal, to 
which they may with certainty be imputed. Animal 
fubftances, before unknown, are met with frequently 
in the bowels of the earth : for the inhabitants of feas 
and rivers have been hitherto fo imperfe&ly de (bribed, 
that we know but little of their internal (Irubture ; 
and many forts we have never feen or heard of. 
Amongft the great numbers of foffii (hells we find, 
how few of their correfpondent kinds are feen in the 
bed collections of recent ones? and what a variety of 
marine bodies, as well as parts of land-animals, are 
frequently dug up in this ifland, of kinds never found 
recent in our feas, or inhabitants of our clime, fuch as 
nautili , ammonitce y &c. the teeth and bones of ele- 
phants, the palmed horns of the elk, of the morfe- 
deer, and many others ? 
I (hall be glad to have this fubjebt confidered by 
fomebody more able to give you information ; tho’ 
no one withes more the prosperity of this Royal 
Society, or can be with greater zeal, 
Gentlemen, 
Your mod obedient fervant, 
than 
Henry Baker. 
C^2 XX. 
Strand, March 29, 
I 753* 
