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XII. A farther account of fossil hones discovered in caverns 
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inclosed in the lime stone rocks at Plymouth. By Joseph 
Whidbey, Esq. In a Letter addressed to Sir Everard 
Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. 
Read February 8, 1821. 
Bovisand Lodge, near Plymouth, 
Dear Sir, IIth Nov. l820 - 
In November 1816, I sent to Sir Joseph Banks, some fossil 
bones found in the lime stone quarries at Oreston, near Ply- 
mouth, which bones were submitted by him to your examina- 
tion ; and as you considered them to be of some importance, 
a description of them was laid before the Royal Society, on 
the 27th of February, 1817. 
I now take the liberty of sending you some more bones 
that have been subsequently found, nearly similarly situated, 
and not far from the place where the others were discovered, 
and I beg you will please to m^ke use of these in any way 
you may think proper for the benefit of science. 
These bones were lately found in a cavern one foot high, 
eighteen feet wide, and twenty feet long, lying on a thin bed 
of dry clay at the bottom ; the cavern was entirely sur- 
rounded by compact lime stone rock, about eight feet above 
high water mark, fifty-five feet below the surface of the 
rock, one hundred and seventy-four yards from the original 
face of the quarries, and about one hundred and twenty 
