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EXTENT OF FOSSIL ELEPHANTS, IN ENGLAND. 
the teeth, bones, and horns of elk, stag, ox, horse, hippopotamus, and 
other diluvial animals. In the valley of the Thames they have been dis¬ 
covered at Sheppy, the Isle of Dogs, Lewisham, London, Brentford, Kew, 
Hurley Bottom, Wallingford, Dorchester, Abingdon, and Oxford; also 
at Norwich, Canterbury, and Chartham, near Bochester. On the south 
coast of England they occur at Lyme Kegis and Charmouth (from the 
latter place Mr. De la Beche has lately obtained a tusk nine feet eight 
inches in length); also at Abbotsbury, Burton, and Loders, near 
Bridport, and near Yeovil in Somerset. At Whitchurch, near Dor¬ 
chester, they lie in gravel above the chalk, and are found in a similar 
position on Salisbury Plain: in the valley of the Avon also, at Box, 
and Newton near Bath, and in that of the Severn, at Gloucester; and 
at Bodborough, near Stroud. In the centre of England we have 
them at Trentham, in Staffordshire, at two places mentioned by Grew 
and Morton, in Northamptonshire, and abundantly at Newnham and 
Lawford, near Bugby, in Warwickshire. In North Wales, Pennant 
mentions two molar teeth and a tusk found in Flintshire, at Halkin, 
near the mouth of the Vale of Clwydd; and they are not wanting, 
though they have been less frequently noticed, in Scotland and 
Ireland. In all these cases they are found in the superficial diluvial 
detritus, consisting either of gravel, sand, loam, or clay, and are never 
embedded in any of the regular strata. 
The circumstances that attend some of these deposits require to 
be more particularly detailed. In the streets of London the teeth and 
bones are often found, in digging foundations and sewers, embedded in 
the gravel; e. g. elephants’ teeth have been found under 12 feet of 
gravel in Gray’s-lnn Lane; and lately at SO feet deep, in digging the 
