210 Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 
the horse kind, the stag, the ox, the hare, and small car- 
nivorous animals. Some very large epiphyses of vertebrae. 
might incline us to think they were of the eetaceous class 
of animals. There are also some fragments of human bones, 
to which I shall recur. Unfortunately, the different depths 
at which each bone was found were not accurately enough 
ascertained; neither were the bones which were found in 
the entrenchment mentioned by Reisel, sufficiently distin- 
guished from those found out of their limits. 
Canstadt is not the only place in the vale of the Neckar 
where similar discoveries have been made. 
Near the village of Berg, above Canstadt, there is a sin- 
gular mass of calcareous earth which consists of nothing 
else than incrustations of aquatic plants: I have often vi- 
sited this place myself, and [ learn from M. Autenrieth that 
he found a fossi} skeleton of a horse there. In 1745 a 
tusk of fifty pounds weight was dug up in the same place ; 
and M. Joeger found a lower jaw four years ago. 
About eighteen months ago there was found, very near the 
walls of Stutgard, upon digging a cave, a considerable part 
of a large elephant’s skeleton, two large tusks and a smaller 
one, in reddish and blueish clay. 
The narrow valley of the Kocher, near Halle, in Suabia, 
furnished some tusks in 1494 and 1605; the latter discovery, 
which is still suspended in the church of Halle, weighs 
300 pounds, An inscription below it informs us that there 
were a great many very large bones found near it. A fire 
having destroyed one third of this city in 1728, upon dig- 
zing the new foundations plenty of fossil ivory was found, 
and in particular a tusk seven feet and a half long. A 
grinder, from the same place, is represented in the Musewm 
Closterianum, fig. 8. 
All the alleys of the great rivers in Getnny have fur- 
nished fossil bones, as well as the places we have mentioned. 
In the valleys of the Danube, and through all Hungary, they 
particularly abound. 
To return to Germany. We find a skeleton was dug up in 
1722 at Tide, in the valley of the Ocker, between Wolfen- 
buttel 
