370 Mr. White s Ohfervatiot'.s on a 



Franklin had received from the fame place?. 

 Thefe tulles and grinders, Dr. Hunter was fully 

 convinced, vi'ere not, as was fuppofed, of the 

 American elephant, but belonged to an animal 

 of another fpecies, a pfeud-elephant t or ammal in- 

 cognitum as he calls it, which naturalilts are now 

 unacquainted with; and from the form of the 

 knobs on the body of the grinders, and the 

 difpofition of the enamel on them, which makes 

 a cruft on the outfide only of the tooth, as in 

 a human grinder, his brother Mr. J, Hunter 

 ■was convinced that the animal was either car- 

 nivorous, or of a mixed kind, Thofe who wifh 

 to have a further account of this fubjefl, I mud 

 beg leave to refer to the dodlor's ingenious paper. 



The thigh bone, which I have now the honour 

 to fhew to this Society, was given to me by 

 Mr. Hardman, of Ardwick, who purchafed it 

 at Liverpool. It was found in a room in that 

 town, from whence fome people, who kept wild 

 beads, had fuddenly decamped in the night, 

 and, it is fuppofed, left this bone behind them. 

 This is all I could learn of its hiftory. It is 

 evidently the left thigh bone of fome amazingly 

 large animal. The length of it, is three feet ten 

 inches and fix lines ; the breadth, in the nar- 

 roweft part, four inches and feven lines. Its 

 ihicknejs, two inches and nine lines. Its fmallefl 

 circumferer.ee, one foot and one inch; and its 

 '-joeight, forty pounds eight ounces. 



On comparing this bone with the femurs 



of 



