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0# Geographical Maps and Models. By Fredebick A. Carrington. 
(Ii Professor Savi's Tfor/c on the Phtenomena obsewed during the Earthquakes 
kJucantj in August 1846. By \V. J. Hamilton, F.G.S., Pres. Geog. Soc. 
On the Freshicater Eocene Beds of the Ilordle Cliff, Hants. 
By the Marchioness of Hastinos. 
Is the freshwater eocene beds of the Hordle Cliff* on the coast of Hampshire, 
fpnireto Alum Bay, and the chalk cliffs occurring between that bay and the 
hwhain the Isle of Wight, are two layers of white sand, in both of which have 
kn Wad remains of the I’alieoiherium. They both dip to the east, nnd are 
nlj silty yards in length. The lowest one, which is composed of sand intcr- 
wedirith marl, is first seen at low-water mark, rises to the west, and is very vari- 
^ u to thickness and direction. The upper layer, which is fiftevo feet higher, 
<cia in thickness from six to twelve inches, and extend* beneath the surface in a 
Wtooul direction as far at we have been able to penetrate. The way ia which 
•iitai reoiains are scattered in thi* layer is very curious. For many feet, thu »and, 
•lichii peculiarly fine, remains pure and imroixed with anything save hero and 
^iPkoorbis, a Limneu*, a fish-scide, and seeds of the Chara, Then the layer 
WttSM in thickness, the sicus of organic life are more frequent, indurated iiiasses 
^tl occur; iimsse* of Potaoiidaare found ; and surrounded and encrusted l>y 
Come upon the remain* of PulsBolherium and other extinct Pachyderms, fish, 
cmcodile. The manner in which the component ports of these animals 
** «usd M^aratcd and scnitcrcd U very curious ; and it is very rure indeed to find 
PCjiutaj so perieet as those Ihnve been fortunate enough to become the possesfcor 
Mnthc upper strata were found the remains of a new species of extinct Pachyderm 
•"Vwlirnum) described in his recent communication to the GcoK^ical Society 
7 ■'*) friend ProfeMor Owetj. Within three feet of it, and having we may fairly 
just finished so copious a meal upon it as only to leave the upper jaw and 
•“i undevoured, and that even bearing ayuiptoms of having been cnniuteiiceU upon, 
beautifully perfect head of the crocodile which Mr. Owen will de- 
M, wh many vertebra: nnd onoush of the remaininff parrs of its skeleton to 
to form a very correct idea of the whole creature. Mixed up with tlie*e 
AirWk* V* Faloplotherium, evidently forming part of the animal to 
n the head belonged; and likewise the jaw of the offspring of the crocodile, so 
warrant the supposition that it was barely ushered into existence when it 
Ittuiinot omit likewise to state, that close to this crocodile’s head (the whole 
W coiBpriring a space of about six feet long by ten inches only in thickness, and 
other nearly in u straight line) were found the nearly entire shell of a 
opoyx (thcfiiieit eocene foasil of the kind which Profe*sor(^wen has ever seen), 
and scale* of o fish of the order Lepidosleus 
H kttJ h twenty or tlurty feet from this group whs found the entire upper 
of® crocodile, THther Mualler than the first specimen, but infinttely 
It “ ^*’0 palate it preterved entire. , y, , 
tu year* ago since I found in a locality between Cowes and Colwell 
/W, *c*lcs and teeth of crocodiles, shell ofTrionyx, the palate m the 
Lip then just named by M. Agassiz, and a bone figured and described 
I "'ta ill lu9 ' British Mamniaiia* as Lophiudoo or I’alieotneTium. 
with remarking, that the vertebra: anil other bone 
kiif found atintcrvttls of from fourinchesto 
»«tw£tfd of the heads (being the heaviest port.) of the animals, would with 
Mtij. I *®®d one to Infer that the current ran to the westward, and that the 
rnd^i .?*" liquid mass of rand in which they are imbedded wa» much more 
RT® found the nodules which contain the 
hj^“V®^^^yosauri, &q„ whose destruction would seem to have been compasjed 
•y perfect state in which these brittle remains are found before being taken 
bones of tJie Croco- 
three feet apart 
