the body to be changed, as indeed ic appears to have been in this 

 in fiance of oux petrified bone : for with it was found a toothy de- 

 pi fted Fig. 5. in its ex aft bignefs, weighing two ounces and *, 

 not at all petrified but perfeft bone ftill, rather exceeding than any 

 thing fhort of it in proportion ; whence it muft neceffarily be con- 

 cluded, that there could be but little if any augmentation at 



all. 



1 60. And if it be afked how it fhould come to pais that the 

 thigh-bone fhould be petrified, and not the tooth, it may be an- 

 fwered, and that experimentally too, that teeth admit not fo ea- 

 fjly of any change or petrification, becaufe they are much more 

 clofely compared fubfiances than any other bones ; whence 'tis, 

 that we fo often find them found and good, when all other bones 

 are confumed. Thus at Bathendown, or Bannerdown (the Mons 

 Badonicut of Nenniui) not far from Bath in Somerfet-Jhire, there 

 have been Cap fulls of teeth picked up by fuch as followed the 

 Plough ', but we are told of no other bones found there. And 

 we are informed by Fazellu<s y in his Hiftory of Sicily, that of 

 two Giants Sceletons, one found by Johannes a brachih fortibws, in 

 the Field Gibilo, a mile South of the Town Mazarenum, now 

 Mazara , and the other by Faults Leontinut, not far from Paler- 

 mo, that when they came to be touched, all fell into duft but the 

 denies molares, or the greater teeth called the Grinders k , fufti- 

 cient Arguments (I had almoft faid) of their unalterable ftate* 



161. Since then it feems to be manifeft, that thecizeof the 

 bone has been fcarce alter'd in its petrification : It remains, that 

 it muft havebelong'd to fome greater Animal than either an Ox or 

 Horfe ; and if fo (fay almoft all other Authors in the like cafe) in 

 probability it muft have been the bone of fome Elephant brought 

 hither during the Government of the Romans in Britan : But this 

 opinion too lies under fo great difficulties, that it can hardly be 

 admitted ; which are briefly thefe. 



162. Firft, That we do not find that any of the Roman Au- 

 thors, who elfewhere are large enough in defcribing the Ele- 

 phants behavior in fight, and how terrible they were to fome of 

 the Trans-Alpine Nations, mention any fuch matter in any of 

 their Expeditions -into Britan* Dion 1 , 'tis true, fays, That Clou* 



' SiWsAnnals, intheLifeof KingArtbw. v Tho. Fazdli dere6tuSicufoDtea*t.prieru,Ij6i.ejp-6, 

 * Dionis Caffii Rom. Hiji. lib. 60. 



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