304. Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 
Mr. Peale mentions, still more recently, some bones found 
in Salisbury Plain, near Bristol, and in the Isle of Dogs*. 
Dom Calmet, in his Dictionary of the Bible, speaks of a 
giant found in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, near the 
famous Stonehenge. 
Pennant procured two grinders and a tusk from Flint- 
shire. They were extracted, by some miners, from under 
a lead mine 118 feet deep, in a bed of gravel; and among 
the upper layers there was one of calcareous stone 10 or 12 
feet thick: a stag’s horn was found along with them. I 
suspect much that this position has not been well described ; 
it is, perhaps, the only one of its kind. ; 
Treland has furnished elephant bones in its southern parts. 
There were four fine jaw-hbones dug up in 1713 at Magher- 
ry, eight miles from Beltarbet, in digging the foundations 
of a rail to 
Scandinavia, although extremely unfit to breed living ele- 
phants, contains plenty of fossil oncs. 
M. Quensel, superintendant of the cabinet of natural his- 
tory of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, has had the 
goodness to send me the drawing of a large ower jaw in the 
ahaa cabinet: it was found in a hillock of ihn near the 
river Jic, in Ostrobothnia. 
J. J. Deebeln has already described some gigantic bones 
dug up, in 1733, at Falkenberg, in the province of Halland. 
To judge of them from the drawings, they must be a first 
rib, a metacarpal bone, and a nondescript bone of an ele- 
phant. 
The giants’ bones dug up in Norway, spoken of by Pon- 
toppidam in his Natural History of Norway, must be no- 
thing else than elephants’ bones. 
Thomas Bartholin speaks of an elephant’s jaw-bone which 
was sent from Iceland to Resenius, and given by the latter 
to the cabinet of the university of Copenhagen. It was-pe- 
trified into silex, 
Sloane had some in his cabinet altered in the same man- 
ner; but he has not informed us of the cause of it, 
* Historical Disquisition on the Mammoth, p. 7. Note. 
+ Phil. Trans. vol. xxix. no, $49. 
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