Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 208 
sertation ** Upon the Revolutions of the Surface of the 
Globe,”’ published at Haarlem in 1787, says that he pos- 
sesses an elephant’s tooth found in Brabant. He adds, that 
avery large fossil headsof this kind was dragged out of a 
river two leagues from Louvain by some fishermen. 
The pretended bull’s horn, so long suspended from one 
of the pillars of the cathedral of Strasburg, is merely a fossil 
tusk which had been formerly dragged out of the same river. 
In general, the whole banks of the Rhine swarm with 
these bones. 
In the canton of Basle, in Swisserland, they also abound. 
The landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt’s cabinet has a lower 
jaw of great size, found near Worms, 
There is a particular dissertation of Charles Gotlob Steding 
upon the fossil ivory in the environs of Spires. It repre- 
sents a jaw of thirteen distinct laminz, weighing three 
pounds and a half, and was found four feet deep, near a 
fragment of a tusk of four pounds weight. 
Merk mentions a cranium found near Manheim, a plate 
of which exists; but I cannot procure a sight of it. Its 
two jaws weighed 200 pounds. 
M. Hammer possesses a tooth dug up in an island of the 
Rhine opposite Manheim, and a fragment brought out of 
the Rhine near that city. M. Gmelin, an apothecary at 
Tubingen, has a lower jaw found in the Rhine also near 
Manheim. -» | 
Germany is certainly the country where the largest quan- 
tities of fossil bones have been discovered ; not, perhaps, be- 
cause it contains more than any other country, but because 
there is not in the whole empire any district which does not 
contain some learned man capable of collecting and publish- 
ing whatever is remarkable. 
Every body knows the history of the elephant discovered 
at Tonna, in the country of Gotha, in 1696, and which 
has been described by Tentzelius and Hoyer *. 
%* Tentzelii Epistola ad Magliabecchium, de Sceleto Elephantino, Tonnz 
nuper effosso, Phil. Trans. vol. xix. no. 234, p.757—776. I. G. Hoyer de 
Ebore fossili, seu de Sceleto Elephantis in colle sabuloso reperto, Ephem. Nat. 
Cur. dec. 3. an. 7—8. p. 294, obs, clxxv. See also Act. Erudit, Lips. Jan. 1697; 
and Valentini Amphitheatr, Zootomicum, p. 26. 
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