208 Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 
Diss. histor. phys. de Cornibus et Ossibus fossilibus Canstadi- 
ensilus, 1701, 4to; in which Spleiss has inserted an ac- 
count written by Solomon Reisel, physician to the duke of 
Wirtemberg. This discovery is also treated of in the Me- 
dulla mirabilium de Seyfried, and in the Descriptio Ossiunt 
fossilium Canstadiensium de Reiselius, 17153 and John Sa- 
muel Earl has given a chemical analysis of it, very correctly 
considering the period in which he lived, in his Lapis Lydius 
philosophico-pyrotechnicus, &c. Francfort 1705. 
T am indebted to the friendship of M. Autenrieth, pro- 
fessor of anatomy at Tubingen, and of M. Yeger, keepet 
of the cabinet of natural history at Stutgard, for a still more 
‘circumstantial account of the above discovery. 
These two gentlemen have still the bones before their 
eyes ; they know the place where they were found ; and they 
are in possession of the proces-verbaux which were drawn 
up at the time of the discovery. 
The spot is on the east of the Neckar, about a thousand 
paces beyond the town of Canstadt, on the side of the vil- 
lage of Feldbach. Riesel says that there are the remains of 
an antient wall there, eight feet thick, and eighty round it, 
which seems to have been the inclosure of a fort or temple $ 
and, in fact, some more remains of the same descriptron are 
to be seen. Spleiss concluded that these bones were those 
of such animals as were sacrificed; but they were, for the 
most part, by far too deep for this supposition: besides, they 
have been found much nearer the Neckar in a natural soil, 
and quite similar to that where they are usually dug up. All 
that can be concluded from their abundance within this in- 
closure is, that they have been once before dug up in great 
quantities in that neighbourhood, collected together by some 
curious people, and again covered over. 
The soil is a yellow clay mixed with small grains of © 
quartz and small shells. M. Autenrieth has sent me draw- 
ings of five of the latter, which appear to me to be fresh- 
water shells. This clay fills the various cavities of the cal- 
careous hillocks in regular rows, and these hillocks are in- 
terspersed with larger ones of a reddish marl. 
These 
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