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other have met alfo with thofe greater Tusks with which they 

 are armed, of which I have not heard there have been any yet 

 found in England, nor any thing like them. 



164. Add hereunto what prevails with me much, thatilnce 

 the great conflagration of London, Anno 1666. upon the pulling 

 down of St. Mary Wool-Church, and making the fite of it into a 

 Mtr cat --place, there was found a thigh-bone (fuppofed to be of i 

 WomanJ now to be feen at the Kings-head Tavern at Greenwich in 

 Kent, much bigger and longer than ours of Hone could in pro- 

 portion be, had it been intire. We have alfo here at Oxford*, i 

 thigh-bone that came from London, three foot and two inches 

 long, which I guefs may be of an agreeable proportion with 

 ours. And the fame day I brought the tooth from Cornwell, there 

 were two others happily procured for me by my worthy Friend 

 Samuel Fowler A. M. dug up in the Parifh Church of Morton Va- 

 lence, about feven miles from Glocefter, in the way thence to Bri- 

 fiol, in all points fo exactly like the other from Cornwell, in ridgeq, 

 cavities, isrc. that had they not differ'd fomwhat in colour, they 

 could fcarce have any way been diftinguifti'd. Now how Ele- 

 phants lliould come to be buryed in Churches, is a queftion not 

 eafily anfwered, except we will run to fo groundlefs a fhift, as to 

 fay, that poffibly the Elephants might be there buryed before 

 Chrijlianity florifTi'd in Britan, and that thefe Churches were af- 

 terward cafually built over them. 



165. If it be urged out of Pontics Virunniu6, and fome o- 

 thers, that the Emperor Claudius was at Glocejler, and that he 

 built that City after his own name, in memory of the Marriage of 

 his fair Daughter Genniffa, with Arviragu* then King of Britan , 

 where poffibly he might have fome of his Elephants with him, 

 which might dye and be buried thereabout. It muft be anfwer- 

 ed, that notwithstanding the name of Claudii Caftrum, now Glo- 

 cefler, feemsfo much to favor the ftory in hand, that yet in all 

 likelyhood there was never any fuch matter : For neither Sue- 

 tonius p , who numbers up all the Daughters that he Had, and 

 shews how given in Marriage. Nor Vion q , who do's the fame 

 (who lived in his time, and had born the Office of Conful) remem- 

 ber any fuch Daughter, or fo difpofed of to Arviragus. 



* In the Medicine School. Pont. VirunniiyBisl, Britan. lib. 4. P Sxeton.tn vita Claudii. itHon. 



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166. Be- 



