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The only instance which I find mentioned of these remains being 
found in England, is related by Mr. Thomas Knowles, who states 
that a pair of horns was found, six feet under ground, in a peat-moss, 
near North Dreighton, in Yorkshire, in the year 1744. These horns 
Mr. Knowles describes as being each of them five feet and an inch in 
length, and palmed ; and observes, that they were not at their full 
growth, since they were yet covered with what is called the velvet. 
Phil. Trans. Vol. xliv. Dr. Mortimer observes, in a note to this 
paper, that the horns mentioned by Mr. Knowles are evidently of the 
same sort as those which are so often found in Ireland : but adds, “ I 
do not remember to have met with any before of this species found in 
England, or any where else besides Ireland.” 
Previous to my having visited the neighbourhood of Harwich, John 
Hanson, Esq. of Great Bromley Hall, Colchester, very kindly favoured 
me with a view of the fossils which he had obtained from the Essex 
coast, as well as several correct drawings from them, and two or three 
of the specimens themselves. Among those in Mr. Hanson’s posses- 
sion was the beam of a horn, so large, and at the same time possess- 
ing a form so much resembling that of the Irish fossil horns, as led 
me, at the time, to mention their agreement. 
At my first or second visit to Walton, I procured the corresponding 
beam with that possessed by Mr. Hanson, and with it a fragment of 
the palmated part ; and, in 1808, I obtained from the same place the 
forehead, with the beamsof both horns, broken off just at the commence- 
ment of the palmated part. This specimen very much resembles, except 
in being larger, one which was found in the canal of Ourcq, and which 
is figured by Cuvier in PI. i. Fig. 9, of Ruminans Fossiles. The agree- 
ment is very close between the proportions of the Essex specimen, 
and those which are given by Dr. Molyneux of the Irish horns, allow- 
ing for a circumstance which I did not expect, that the Essex horns 
exceed the other in size. The breadth of the skull of the Irish fossil, 
in its broad part, is 12 inches ; and of the Essex skull, of which only 
