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was very soft and much mud-stained, and the bones in a crumbling condition. 
This tree and Nos. 7, 9, 10 and 11 constitute a group near to each other, and 
of which owing to recession of the cliff only the bases remained. 
No. 9. Extracted in 1878. Short coaly base of a tree with a few bones of Hyler- 
peton, much decayed. 
No. 10. Extracted in 1879. Diameter, 1 foot 6 inches. A short coaly base with 
much mineral charcoal. Detached bones of Hylerpeton ; teeth and scales of 
Sparodus ; remains of larvae of insects ('?). 
No. 11. Extracted in 1879. Diameter, 15 inches, much crushed; height, about 
2 feet; filled with argillaceous matter; unproductive. Distant 8 feet from 
No. 7, and exactly opposite No. 10. 
No. 12. Extracted in 1878. Diameter, 2 feet 4 inches; height remaining, 3 feet 
6 inches; distant 20 feet from No. 11. Surface marked with broad ribs and 
rows of leaf-scars. In upper part gray sandstone, in bottom 4 inches of dark- 
coloured material which afforded bones of Dendverpetnn and Hylohomus , also 
Millipedes and Pupce. Some of the cuticle of Dendrerpeton is preserved. 
This tree had been inclined to the south-west, and was consequently somewhat 
flattened, so that its diameter in one direction was double that in the other, 
and the lower side had been crushed or bent inwards. In the base there were 
two inches of mineral charcoal, and over this about 2 inches of hard and dark- 
coloured laminated matter, which afforded many Tricjonocarpa and fragments 
of plants. It also contained the whole of the animal remains above referred to. 
No. 13. Extracted in 1878 (fig. 4). Diameter, 1 foot 6 inches; height, 9 feet; 
Fig. 4. 
Tree No. 13, as it appeared when partially exposed in the reef. 
