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XXI. Some Account of a FoJJtl lately found 
near Ch rift-Church, in Hampshire ; in a 
Letter to Dr. Maty, Sec. R. S. from 
the Hon . Dairies Barrington, Vice-Pref 
R. S. 
Dear Sir, 
Read Feb. 4,~|" Send herewith a foffil which was found 
I/73 ' inachff,nearChrift-Church, inHamp- 
fhire, by the Rev. Mr. Howel, of Pool, and which 
Mr. Gough, F. A. S. defires may be fhewn to the 
Royal Society, if it fhould be thought worthy 
their attention. [See Tab. VII.] 
I am very little verfed in this branch of na- 
tural hiltory ; but as I am the unworthy channel 
of communication, I thought it my duty to pro- 
cure the bell: information I was able, with regard 
to this very lingular fpecimen. 
The fhining divifions, upon the furface of the 
Rone, feem to be the fcales of a fifh, which I 
fhould conceive to be the Acus maxima fquajnofa , 
engraved in Willoughby’s Hiltory of Filh, Tab. 
p. 8. and defcribed by Ray, in his Synopfis Pif- 
cium, p. 109. 
It appears by the catalogue of Englilh foffils, 
in the collection of Dr. Woodward, that a {till 
larger fpecimen of the fame fort was found in 
Stansfield quarry, near Woodltock, though Dr. 
Woodward could only procure a fingle fcale. V. II. 
p. 53. c. 24. 
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