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&thy brown colour, refembling that of the flone, in

which it is bedded.
One half of the bone is buried in the thine ; yet
enough of it is expofed to thew, that it is the thigh.
bone of an animal of greater bulk than the largelt
on. I have compared it with the recent thigh-bone
of an elephant ; but could oblirve little or no re-
femblance between them. If I may be allowed to
afibme the liberty, in which &Rifts are often in-
dulged, and to hazard a vague conjetture of my
own. I would fay it may probably have belonged to
the hippopotamus, to the rhinoceros, or thine fuch
large animal, of whofe anatomy we have not yet
competent knowlege.
The flate-pit, in which this bone was found, ta
about a quarter of a mile north-weft from Stones-
field, upon the declivity of a riling ground, the
upper (Luton, of which is a vegetable mould about
eight or ten inches thick under this is bed of
rubble, with a mixture of land and clay, very coarfe,
about fir feet deep, in which are a great number of -

IVIOffriff both plain and ftriated, and many fmall ob-

long oyfters, which the workmen call the fickle-
oyffer, fome of them being found crooked, and
bearing fome refemblance to that inftrument ; but .
all differing from the corui-refira e of Moreton. .
Immediately under this Ilratum of rubble is a bed
of loft grey tione, of no ufe ; but containing the
endive warii, with great mamille, the olypoari of
different fizes, all well preferved ; and alto many -

anemia and peffierr. This bed, which is about fe-

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