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I have lately been fo lucky as to procure froth the

fame place the thigh-bone of a large animal, which
probably belonged to the fame creature, or one of the
fame genus, with thc vertebra above-mentioned.
As the bone, and the flone, in which it is bedded,
weigh no let's than two hundred pounds, I have fent
you a drawing of it (See Tot. XIX.) ; front which,
and the following fhort defuiption, you may. I hope,
form forne idea of this wonderful
Thc bone is x9 inches in kngth ; its diameter,.
at the extremity oldie two trochanters, is 8 inches;
at the lower extremity the condylm form a furfaee
of 6 inches. The Idler trochanter is fo well ex-
preffed in the drawing, that you cannot mall" it;
and both the extremities appear to be a link rubbed
by the flufluating water, M which I apprehend it
hay fume time before the great jumble obtained,
which brought n to thh place r and from whence I
imagine it to have been part of a &clown before the
flood. For if it had been corroded by any men-
&num itt tbe earth, or dming the groat conflux of
water bekm the draining of the earth, it mull have
Coffered io other parts as well as at each end : but
as the extremities only arc injured, we can attribum
fuch a partial droll to the motion of the water only,
which puled it to rub and (hike againll don knd,

The (mall trochanter was broken in lifting it out

of the hamper, in which it was brought to me ; but
not unhappily ; fince all the cowelli were bylhat
means dikovered to bellied witlx rpm7 . matter,
that fixed the (lone of the flrafum, in Wlimh it lay.
The outward cmt cc cortex is fmooth, and of a
dulky

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