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XII. An Account of some fossil remains of the Rhinoceros, disco- 
vered by Mr. Whitby, in a cavern inclosed in the lime-stone 
rock, from which he is forming the Breakwater at Plymouth. 
By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. 
Read February 27, 1817. 
Wh en Mr. Whitby engaged to superintend this most 
arduous undertaking, Sir Joseph Banks requested him to 
examine narrowly any caverns he might meet with in the 
rock, and have the bones, or any other fossil remains that 
were met with, carefully preserved. 
Mr. Whitby in compliance with this request, in November 
1816, sent up to Sir Joseph Banks a box of fossil bones, 
which are the subject of the present Paper. 
Mr. Whitby states the bones to have been found in a 
cavern, in the solid lime-stone rock, 25 feet wide, 45 feet 
long, taking the direction into the cliff, and 12 feet deep. 
This cavern was filled with solid clay, in which the bones 
were imbedded, and lay about 3 feet above the bottom of the 
cavern. The lime-stone quarries of Oreston, in which this 
cavern was met with, are situated on the south side of Cat- 
water, and about one mile from Plymouth. 
When Mr. Whitby began to work this quarry, the rock 
was 74 feet perpendicular above high water; the bones were 
found 70 feet below the surface of the rock, and about 
4 feet above high water mark. He quarried 60 feet hori- 
zontally into the cliff, before he came to the cavern. Before 
