Notice of the Discovery of Reptilian Foot-tracks and Remains in the Old Red or Devonian Strata of Moray

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I beg to submit to the Geological Society a brief notice of a discovery of considerable interest, which I made during the last year, but was prevented from communicating before the close of the last Session; a delay which I do not now regret, since a recent fact has come to light which invests with additional importance that which it was my object to lay before the Society. In 1850 I discovered in the quarry of Old Red at Cummingston near Elgin, a slab of sandstone bearing a beautiful and distinct series of quadrupedal foot-prints, of which a representation, one-sixth the size of the original, is given in the annexed sketch (Pl. III.). The slab exhibits on the surface, in a very striking manner, thirty-four foot-prints of a quadruped, traced in an uninterrupted succession across the stone. The impressions of the right feet alternate with those of the left, from which they are separated laterally by an interval of three inches, the length of each stride or pace being about four inches. The imprints of the fore and those of the hind feet are nearly in contact, and bear a precisely similar relation throughout: the size of the foot-marks of the former in proportion to the latter is as three to four; the hinder being about one inch in diameter.

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