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These marly hillocks sometimes present us with petrified 
plants and beds of coal, and their summit is covered with 
eld marine petrifactions, such as ammonites, belemnites, &c. 
Tt was 4 common soldier who first remarked some large 
bones above the ground in April 1700.. The reigning duke 
continued digging for them for six months, and such bones 
as were most entire were carefully preserved. The remains, 
being a prodigious quantity, (for, according to Reisel, there 
were more than sixty tusks,) were sent to the laboratory to 
be employed as fossil ivory. 
The bones themselves were without any order, for the 
most part all broken; some few of them were as if they had 
been rolled about. There were whole cart loads of horse 
teeth, and there were not bones in proportion to the tenth 
part of these teeth. The elephants’ bones seem to have been 
uppermost, and the others buried lower. In general, they 
were never found deeper than twenty feet. A part of them 
were entangled in a kind of rock formed of clay, sand, flint, 
and ochre, agglutinated together ; and the workmen were 
obliged to have recourse to gunpowder in order to separate 
them. 
-The elephant bones still in the royal cabinet at Stutgard 
consist of the following pieces; viz. part of an upper jaw 
with two parallel grinders ; two upper fore teeth almost en- 
tire, and fragments of two others: the evamel on the used 
part of the teeth was, as in almost all fossil teeth, siender 
and thin; four upper back teeth; two lower teeth; a very 
crooked tusk of five fect and a half long, and another four 
feet and a half, measured on the convex side; fragments of 
several other tusks; pieces of vertebra and ribs ; four shoul- 
der blades, and pieces of some others ; a piece of a humerus; 
three cubitus; six nameless bones of the right side, and 
seven of the left, for the most part incomplete; four heads 
of femurs; three femurs without the heads; a rotula; two 
tibias. There is also, at an apothecary’s in the same city, 
a lower jaw and a portion of a tibia. 
These bones are accompanied in the cabinet with plenty 
of bones of the rhinoceros, the hyzna, and animals of 
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