134. The Natural Biflory 



dint C<efar, when he was called to the afliftance of the Proetor 

 Aulm Plautiut, fore preffed by the Britans, then revenging the 

 death of their flain Prince Togodumnws, amongft other prepara- 

 tions, gathered together his Elephants, tff <n aMw, $ EAepaVw 

 >e;ct/ft'Agx'n) J are his very words. But Suetonius in his life, 

 where he is very particular concerning this "Expedition into Bri- 

 tan, mentions no fuch matter ; nor indeed doth Dion fay, that 

 he brought them hither with him, only that be gather'd them to- 

 gether in order to it. But they both agree in this, that he met 

 with fuch ftormsin his intended paffagc by Sea thither, that he 

 was forced to put in at Marfeilles, and march by Land quite 

 through France to Gejforiacum, now fuppofed to be Boulogne, 

 from whence 'tis true he paffed over to Britan. But f o fwift was 

 his motion in this Expedition, that they alfo both agree, that he 

 was returned to Rome again within fix months, a time fcarce a- 

 greeable with the motion of fo unwildy Creatures as Elephants ; 

 which in all likelyhood were therefore left behind at Marfeilles, 

 becaufe hindered by the weather of their Sea portage, and ne- 

 ver tranfported into Britan at all. Nor find I in other Authors, 

 that it was ever after attempted. One there was, 'tis true, fent 

 hither as a prefent by St. Lewis the 9 th , King of France, to King 

 Henry the Third, Anno 1255. which, fays Matthew Bark *, was 

 the firft feen on this fide the Alps ; and perhaps there may have 

 been two or three brought for flhew hither fmce : but whether 

 it be likely any of thefe fhould be buryed at Cornwell, let the 

 Reader judge. 



163. Befide, had this thigh-bone and tooth, and the feveral o- 

 thers that have been found in England, fuch as the two teeth 

 taken up at Edulfsnefs in the County of Effex, intheRaign of 

 King Richard the Firft, that might have been cut into two hun- 

 dred of an ordinary cize m ; and divers other bones and teeth 

 found at Chartham near Canterbury*, and Farley near Maidftone 

 in Kent, whereof I have one now by me, dug up and given me, 

 by the truly Noble and Ingenious Jacob Lord Aftley, near feven 

 inches round, and five ounces and I in weight, of which more 

 when I come into Kent, Had, I fay, thefe bones and teeth been 

 ever thefpoils of Elephants, we fhould certainly at fome time or 



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