138 On American Elephantine Bones. 



the same regions, there are likewise found teeth re-' 

 semblinsr the Siberian Mammoth's, or those of our 

 living Asiatic elephants; so that, at first, one was not 

 even sure, whether the tusks and those extraordinary 

 grinders belonged to the same animal. 



2. The state of preservation of the stomach might be 

 more particularly described, as to its membranes, &c. ; 

 its figure, if this was still to be distinguished, its di- 

 mensions, its situation in respect to the adjacent bones, 

 ribs, and so on. 



You will excuse, dear Sir, my liberty in troubling 

 you with these questions, as they arise from my desire of 

 knowledge, and please to accept the assurances of my 

 greatest esteem. 



I. A. H. Reimarus. 

 Hamburgh, July 16th, 1806. 



XVII. Case of a Remarkable Diseased Uterus. In a 

 Letter to the Editor, from George Calla\vay, 

 M. D. of Virginia. 



IN the year 1795, Phillis, a negro woman, 

 aged thirty, of delicate health, and several years after 

 marriage to her second husband, discovered a tumour 

 in the hypogastric region. It at first was only percepti- 

 ble whilst she lay, on changing from one to the other 

 side. At such times, she could plainly feel it fall to 

 the depending side. She was troubled with sickness 

 and retching. The tumour gradually increasing, with 



