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balls in the Circus. Pompey had them yoked:to his car at, 
his triumph for Africa. Germanicus exhibited ‘some which 
danced ludicrously ; and under Nero, at the games which 
he gave in honour of his mother, they were exhibited dancing’ . 
upon a rope, ana performing a number of feats of activity. 
Zilian says expressly of those belonging to Germaniicus, that 
they were elephants born at Rome; and they must have con- 
sequently propagated there : 
“© Cum Tiberii Cesaris Nepos Germanicus gladiatoram 
spectaculum edidit, plures jam grandes utriusque sexus cle- 
phanti Rome erant, € quibus alii plerique generati extite= 
runt: quorum artus interea dum committebantur et con- 
firmabantur, et membra infirma conglutinabantur, peritus 
vir ad pertractandos eorum sensus animosque mirabili quo- 
dam discipline genere eos erudiebat.” Adlian. de Anim. 
lib. i. cap. 11. 
Columella asserts the same fact still more positively :— 
« Tndia perhibetur molibus feraruni mirabilis; pares tamen in, 
hac terra (Italia) vastitate belluas progenerari quis neget, cum 
inter Mcenia nostra natos animadvertamus elephantes?’” Col. 
de Re Rustic. lib. ii. cap. 8. 
If our naturalists had paid attention to these two passages, 
they would not haye credited so long the impossibility of 
domesticating the elephant, and they would have perhaps 
tried a little sooner the experiments which have succeeded 
so well when made by M. Corse on that animal. 
Thus, though italy presents a’ great quantity of fossil 
bones, they were for a long time attributed to such indivi- 
dual animals as had been brought there by mankind; some 
of them only, however, may be attributed to this cause. 
The following is an account of the principal places in Italy 
where fossil bones have been found; but we are far from 
regarding it as complete : 
The largest tusk was found by Messrs. Larochefoucauld 
and Desmarets near Rome: it was ten feet long, and eight 
inches diameter, although it was not entire*, We have 
* Buffon, Epoques de la Nat. Notes justif. 9, 
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