We understand a very extr...
WI e understar.l a very extraorlinary discoverv has beezn made by T. Northmore, Esq., during somte geological itivestigatio,r in the neighbourhood of Torquay. In the celebrated caveri of Kent's 101e, he has found under the st-lagmitic incrustation burieo in the mould, several teeth of tle hyena, wild boar, wolf and va,' rious bones of other aniinals not yet identified. A letter'hs be,M written on the subject to the Rev. MIr. Buckland, professor of il neralogy and geofogy, in the university of Oxford; and we hope at somne tuture period, to be able to gratify our antiquarian and gmO logical readers vith a furthier detail of this interesting discover These fossil remnains are now in the posscssioa of Mr. Northnaor, -Brsf;'z Eas Rfer Xewg. Two gentlemen, travellers, who had indulged rather freely inl "a cheerful glass" after dinner, were on Fri?.ay last pro. ceeding in theirgigs from Helston to Penzance. The comparade ability of their horses and the skill of the drivers becoming a to- of discussion, a chaUenge to race, in imitation of the stage-..o,,e drivers, of whose exploits we daily read in the police reports of tL, metropolis, was given and acepted. The blooGs started fU spetr and the contest was maintained with great spirit, utitl one ofr knights of the vhip, in attempting to pass his competitor, got tb wheels of their vehicles entangled, when one was capsized. The wvas broken almost to pieces, but the driver was fortunatel gig into a mud-pool, from which he emerged half suffocated an, , daubed from head to heels, but without any fractufe or serit tusion.- IVest Briton. ilonday week, as two gentlemen in a single-horse ch*e were passing along Enfield-wash, the water was ou1t to such all ten-t as tor upset the carriage, which, falling upon one of the get",L, n cn, very nearly drowned hirn. They weTe both taken to the P,,,] and pat to becd. This part of the high road is verv ofren i mpaSNbl owing to floods, and the stages are obliged to go round by Rn,d town. The lives of passengers ure much enda=gered for wantit4d bridge, which we hear is in contemplation by the county.