200 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNN0 1715. 



could be no other than an elephant, and we do not find that those creatures 

 were ever the product of this climate. And considering how long this must 

 have lain here, I do not believe the inhabitants then had any curiosity or con- 

 veniency to bring such into this kingdom ; for I suppose the best of their ships 

 could not carry one. Then if an elephant, or some other beast, which must 

 have proportion to the teeth, it must have lain there ever since the flood ; and 

 if so, then the bed on which it lay must be of its own making : whence it will 

 follow that the flood coming on him while he lay in his den, he was there 

 drowned, and covered with slime or mud, which since is turned into the sub- 

 stance of the earth before-mentioned. 



The two large teeth are of equal weight, 24lb. each ; the two small teeth are 

 6 ounces each ; but some of them are wasted, and some roots that enter the 

 jaw broken ofl^". 



Remarks on the foregoing Paper and the Teeth. By Thomas Molyneux, M. D. 

 and R. S. S, Physician to the State in Ireland. N° 346, p. 370. 



Having examined the 4 teeth above-mentioned, I am fully convinced, and 

 can on sure grounds aflirm, that they must certainly have been the four grind- 

 ing teeth in the lower jaw of an elephant : and that the many loose fragments 

 of those large bones that were found with them, must have been remains of 

 the same animal. This I take to be one of the greatest rarities that has yet 

 been discovered in this country. 



In pi. 4, fig. 13, AA represents the large grinder of the under jaw on the 

 right side, weighing 2^\h. bbbbbbb are white, rough, indented borders, of an 

 irregular shape, rising about the 10th of an inch higher than the hard black 

 shining surface of the tooth ; this rough raised work serves for the bruising and 

 grinding the animal's food, the tough grains of rice, the leaves, fruits and 

 boughs of trees ; and is of so extreme hard a texture, that it resembles large 

 knotted threads of white glass, laid on and closely fastened to the dark super- 

 ficies of the tooth ; and answers to that glassy surface or enamel, wherewith 

 nature has armed the outside of the teeth of most animals, to prevent their 

 wearing by the constant attrition in chewing their food. 



Also, ccccc is that part of the tooth which rises above the gums, and con- 

 tinues even now distinguished from the rest of the bone, by having its colour 

 of a diflferent shade. And ddddddd are several strong fangs or roots, seemingly 

 united altogether, by which the tooth received its sense and nourishment ; and 

 though it was so large and ponderous, by these it was kept firmly fixed into 

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