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but Tentzel, the librarian to this prince, thought differently ; 
he compared each bone, taken separately, with its analogous 
bone in the elephant of that period, such as tt was in the 
description of Allen Moulin, and by some remarks of Ari- 
stotle, Pliny, and Ray; and showed the resemblance. He 
went further, and proved, by the regularity of the stratum 
under which this skeleton was found, that it could not be 
said that it was interred by human hands; but that it must 
have been brought there by some general cause, such as the 
deluge has been represented. 
The second skeleton, that of 799, was in a compressed 
and crooked position: it occupied a length of 20 feet; the 
hind fect were near the tusks. Tlie latter were 10° feet tong. 
They were tender, but entire; their cavity easily admitted a 
man’s arm. A part only of the lower jaw of the head was: 
preserved, and the two largest grinders. he greater part of 
the other bones and the ribs were broken as they were’ 
detached-from the soil; but larger or smaller portions of all 
the bones were found. The cellulous parts of them were 
filled with crystals of spar. 
. The corona of one of the grinders was nine inches long, 
by three broad ; its height was six or eight inches; an entire 
tibia was two feet four inches, and six or eight inches in 
diameter: a head of a femur was six inches in diameter. 
At a small distance, and in similar strata, stags’ horns 
were found, or what is called the fossil elk; and at Bell- 
stadt, a neighbouring village, some rhinoceros’ teeth were 
found. 
The valley of Unstrut has furnished fossil elephants ix 
several other places of it, particularly a tusk, weighing 115 
pounds, and 10 feet long, near Vera. 
Another place, not less celebrated than Tonna for the 
number of fossil elephants, and bones of other strange ani- 
mals which it has furnished, is the little town of Canstadt, 
in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, upon the Neckar. The 
' principal discovery was made in 1700; and David Spleiss, 
a physician of Schafhausen, gave an account of it in a par- 
ticular dissertation, entitled « Qdipus osteokithologicus 5 seu 
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