Professor Owen has just' discovered in the London clay at Sheppey a new fossil bird with teeth somewhat resembling those in $h§ Australian hooded lizard. He 'concludes if'lb '$&■ web-fooled and «, fish-eater/ No evidence of true teetjl had previously been- knowii in any 1 bird. Sir John Bennett, the well known watchmaker of Cheapside, London, stated at Hastings, while delivering a lecture on Switzerland and the trades in which Swiss were chiefly employed, that they manufacture for England alone watches and clocks to the value of a million sterling annually. He said that 60,000 females were employed in deliQate. parts of the Work, and, that he could not get this dono in England at all.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1757, 23 March 1874, Page 2
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