Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 165 
nine inches diameter, and which must have been at least 12 
feet long. M. de Gazola has sent to our museum the half 
of a lower jaw and a metacarpal bone, which must have be- 
longed to an animal 15 feet high. 
Piedmont has furnished plenty of bones: I Jately received 
for our museum, from M. Giorna, two large pieces of jaw- 
bones which were in the cabinet of Natural History at Turin. 
This gentleman informs me that there is also an elephant’s 
Femur in that cabinet. 
Abbé Nazari speaks of a skeleton at least 18 feet long, 
dug up in 1665 at Toriolo, in Upper Calabria. It is, in- 
deed, said that it resembles that of a human being; but we 
_ know how little credit this comparison is now entitled to. 
Sicily possesses these curiosities in abundance. Two ske- 
_letons were discovered in the 14th and 16th centuries at Tra- 
pani and Palermo, and are described by the writers of that 
age as being those of giants. The account of one of them 
is shamefully exaggerated ; it is described as being 300 feet 
high: but Kircher, who visited the cavern out of which it 
was said to have been dug, positively asserts that it could 
not have been more than 30 feet high. 
Kircher mentions three other giant skeletons found in Si- 
eily ; but, as usual, almost all the bones were consuined, 
except the teeth *, 
The state of oppression under which modern Greece has 
always groaned, does not admit of any correct anatomical 
accounts of the fossils it contains; but that country, also, 
has had its animal giants. ‘ 
In 1691 there was found, about six leagues from Thessa- 
lonica, some bones which admitted the arm of a man into 
their cavities: one lower jaw was 74 inches high, and weighed 
15 pounds. Three other teeth weighed from two to three 
pounds each. The humerus was two feet eight inches in 
circumference. 
Suidas speaks of giants’ bones found in great quantities 
under the church of Saint Mena, at Constantinople; and 
* Mund. Subterr. lib, viii. § 2, cap. iv. p. 59, 
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