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SKIPSEA. 
in Yorkshire. In the Philosophical Transactions for 1746, Mr. T. 
Knowlson describes and figures the head and horns of this animal from 
Cowthorp, near North Deighton, Wetherby. The horns were each five 
feet one inch long, and separated six feet one inch at the tips. The peat 
bogs and shell marl deposits in which the remains of this noble extinct 
animal have been found in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, are 
extremely similar to the lacustrine accumulations of Holderness ; as may 
be seen by reference to Mr. Hart’s account of the discovery of the 
Dublin specimen ; Professor Jameson’s statements respecting the Edin- 
burgh skeleton found in the Isle of Man ; and Mr. Lyell’s remarks on 
the shell marl formations in Scotland. 
Beyond Skipsea the cliff, composed as before of the pebbly clay, 
attains a height of thirty feet, but soon sinks again to an extremely low 
part, where, for half-a-mile in length, a fresh-water deposit is seen, con- 
sisting of clay, with shells at the bottom. Between this point and the 
Barmston drain its height does not exceed twenty feet, and is generally 
as little as twelve feet. Three deposits of fresh-water clay appear in 
this space, and (at M) a mass of clay in undulated lamina.', which 
recalls the appearances under Kilnsea church. This undulated mass is 
separated from the pebbly clay by a layer of gravel. Beyond the Barm- 
ston water, (at N,) where the cliff is seven feet high, is a fresh-water 
deposit, of which the bottom seems almost to graduate into the laminated 
clay before-mentioned. The series here exhibited, is as follows : 
Lacustrine deposit . — Washed sand and gravel, with some shells. Peat. Blue clay. 
Curled crisp shale. Laminated undulated clay, with small pebbles. Diluvial pebbly 
clay. 
Further on, (at O,) the washed sand, above noticed, lies upon a dark 
peaty earth, which rests on contorted gravel. Under all, is the usual 
pebbly clay. On approaching Earl’s Dike, the cliff (at P) is fifteen feet 
high, and is composed of sand accumulated from the road banks, brown- 
ish clay and small pebbles, sand and gravel, pebbly clay. Beyond Earl’s 
Dike, the cliff, seven feet high, is composed of clay, resting on pebbly 
