Note BF — Chapter XIV

There have been fish scales found in Burdie House five inches in length, by rather more than four in breadth. Of the gigantic Holoptychius of this deposit we have still much to learn. The fragment of a jaw, in the possession of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which belonged to an individual of the species, is 18-1/2 inches in length; and it is furnished with teeth, one of which, from base to point, measures five inches, and another four and a half.