606 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [anNO 170T. 



As to the making of paper, he says in the washing the stone, there will remain 

 several short pieces in the bottom of the water, and of these after the common 

 method paper may be made. 



He concludes with the best way of preserving the cloth, for by reason of its 

 dryness it is apt to break, and waste; this is by keeping it always well oiled, and 

 when the cloth is put in the fire the oil burns off, and the cloth comes out white 

 and purified. 



Of his four sorts of amianthus, he found that from Corsica the best, being 

 long and soft ; and the Cyprian sort the worst. 



An Account of Books. — 1 . Jac. Gaveli Acadetn. Monspel. Alumni Avenionensis 

 Doct. Medici et apud Camberienses Practici Nova Febris Idcea, ceu Conjecturte 

 Physicce circa Febris Naturam. Genevte, 1700, 8vo. N° 273, p. 914. 



An attempt to explain the action of the heart and arteries, and the nature of 

 fever, upon mathematical principles. 



D. Dominici Sanguineti Appuli Dissertaliones latrophysiae Neapoli, 1699. 



N° 273, p. gi8. 



Of some large Bones found in a Gravel-pit near Colchester. By Mr. John 



Ltiffhin. N° 274, p. 924. 



In digging for gravel at Wrabness, a small village in the most eastern part of 

 Essex, on the River Stowe, near Harwich, were found divers bones of an 

 extraordinary size, at 15 or )6 feet beneath the surface of the earth. 



We read in Camden, p. 351, that in the time of King Richard II. and in 



the reign of Queen Elizabeth, there were found in the most eastern promontory 



of Essex, at a place called Odulfiness, which I take to be Walton, large teeth 



and bones of an extraordinary bulk, which were accounted the bones of giants. 



But Mr. Childrey, in his Britannia Baconica, p. 100, rather thinks them to be 



the bones and teeth of some elephant buried there by the Romans. That they 



are so is my opinion ; first, because they far surpass in magnitude the bones, &c. 



of the largest animals we have now in our island. 2dly, Because it is evident, 



from Dion Cassius, as quoted by Mr. Camden, in his Britannia, p. 347, that 



abundance of elephants were brought over into England by the Emperor 



Claudius, in his wars with the Britains ; even into Essex itself, as appears from 



the same Dion, a little after in these words ; Claudius having at last joined 



Plautius, and taken the command of the army, passed the River (Thames), and 



upon a fair engagement with the enemy, who were posted there to receive him, 



obtained the victory, took Camolodunum, &c. 3dly, In comparing this bone 



