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2. Two vertebre, into the medullary canal of which a 
man might introduce his fist. 
3. A piece of a rib six inches long, four broad, and two 
thick. 
4. A fragment of the shoulder-blade, the articulary fa~ 
cette of which was twelve inches long, and eight broad. 
5. A head of a humerus, as large as a man’s head. 
6. A femur, five feet long, aha three feet round at the’ 
top; the trochanters were wanting. The neck had neither 
the Jength nor the obliquity of a Hated femur. 
7. Atibia, nearly four feet long, and more than two feet 
round at the bottom. 
8. An astragal, different from that of domestic animals. 
9. Lastly, a calcaneum, which had facettes below for the 
scaphoid and the cuboid, but the posterior apophysis or tu- 
berosity of it was not so strong as that of a man. 
This posterior extremity was certainly that of an elephant; 
there is no other large animal, the astragal of which resem- 
bles that of a man so much as to be mistaken for the hu- 
man astragal ; but the teeth cannot be those of an elephant : 
that animal never has so many, nor have they any roots. It 
appears, therefore, probable that elephant and rhinoceros 
bones were buricd promiscuously together in the place 
where the above bones were found. 
The nearer we approach to our own times, tbe descrip- 
tions of these bones become more reasonable. A true 
elephant’s jaw has been described by M. de la Tourette in 
the ninth volume of Savans Etrangeres de l’ Academie des 
Sciences, p. 747. It was found in 1760, at St. Valier, near 
the Rhone, and 80 feet above the level of that river, in a 
gravelly soil mixed with flint. 
_ M. Faujas describes a tusk found by M. Lavalette in the 
commune of Arbres, near Villeneuve de Berg, in the de- 
partment of Ardeche, at the foot of the Gorion geese aD 
and five feet deep, in a volcanic mass*. 
M. Cordier, engineer of the mines, has furnished me with 
a remark on this position, which he carefully examined, 
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* Annales du Muséum d’Hist. Nat. tome ii. p. 24. 
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