354 On some Quadrupeds supposed to be extinct 



eight miles from Belturbet, in the 

 north of Ireland, a. d. 1715, four large 

 teeth were found, with a piece of the 

 under jawbone and part of the skull 

 of a young elephant. The teeth were 

 more solid and petrified than when 

 in a natural state." 



Fig. A is one of the above grinders. 

 B is a fossil grinder in the possession 

 of the Royal Society. C is the 

 grinder of an elephant between 10 

 and 11 feet high, the entire skull of which was then in West- 

 minster*. 



C W 



It is thus apparent that two fossil elephants are of the same 

 species as those now in existence. 



It is not improbable that the Maghery animal was conveyed 

 to Ireland as a present, or for exhibition. " Fiacra, son of 

 Eacha Moymedon, was mortally w^ounded at the battle of 

 Caonry, which was fought a. d. 380, wherein he was victorious 

 against the army of Momonia, (Munster). On his return to 

 Hy-mac-uais, in Meath, he died of his wounds. His funeral 



* See Phil. Trans. Abridged,(vol. iv., part ii., p. 236 to 245, and Cam- 

 den's Brit., Gough's Ed., 1789,^vol. iii., 604. 



