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buttel and Stetlerburg: Leibnitz had previously given a 
drawing of a jaw- sos found at the same place. 
In 1742 there was an entire skeleton discovered by Dr. ° 
Koenig, at Osterode, at the foot of the Hartz, and at the 
same place where a shoulder-blade and a radius of a rhino- 
ceros had been dug up in 1778. 
In the valleys of the Elbe, besides the entire skeletons of 
the vale of Unstruth, mentioned above, we find the nume- 
rous collections of bones at Esperstedt, in the county of 
Mansfeld, between Halle in Saxony, and Querfurt, and in 
the vales of the Sala. It is very remarkable that some part 
of them was found in a quarty of hard stone, as if the ani- 
mat had fallen into some crevice. 
Some fossil bones have been also lately found at Dessau, 
upon the Elbe, and at Potzdam, at the confluence of the 
Havel and the Spree. 
As far as concerns the valleys of the Oder, we may con- 
sult the Silesia subterranea of Volkmav, who speaks of a 
humerus suspended in the church of Trebnitz, a femur in 
the cathedral of Breslau, and of a pretended giant dug up at 
Liegnitz on digging the foundations of the church, the bones 
of which were distributed through the different churches of 
the country. 
The banks of the Vistula in Prussia and Poland, although 
much less examined than those of the rivers of Gerfnany, 
also furnish us with fossil bones, which have given rise, as 
in other countries, to stories of giants, The banks of the 
Dniester also supply great quantities of these phenomena ; 
and in 1729 great quantities were found near Kaminiek. 
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