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Again, by the size of the grinding part, we may conclude these to be the 

 teeth of a very young and small elephant ; since they are not much above half 

 the length of those that are to be seen at Westminster, which belonged to a 

 beast of not more than between 10 and 11 feet high; nor much above one third 

 of the length of a fossil elephant's grinder in the Royal Society's repository, 

 which is here represented by fig. IQ, (all the figures being drawn to the scale of 

 one-fourth their true dimensions). Hence it is not to be marvelled that the 

 bones of so young an animal, having not acquired their firmness, being in a 

 growing state, should be dissolved by long lying in the earth, as also the roots 

 of the teeth. 



On this occasion, perhaps it may not be amiss to quote a passage out of 

 Matthew Paris's History, who assures us, that in his time Louis IX (afterwards 

 St. Louis) king of France, made a present of an elephant to his cotemporary 

 Henry III of England; and that in the year 1255, after the English had been 

 80 years masters of Ireland. Of this says Matthew, nee credimus quod unquam 

 aliquis elephas visus est in Anglia praeter ilium. 



An Account of a Book, viz. Guilhelmi Musgrave Reg. Societ. utriusque Socii, 

 Geta Britannicus. Accedit Domus Severiance Synopsis Chronologica : et de 

 Icuncula quondam M. Regis ASlJredi Dissertatio. Qvo. Iscce Dumnoniorum, 

 1715. N°346, p. 385. 



The author having some years since published a Comment on Julius Vitalis's 

 Epitaph, which, (with his monument) is to be seen at Bath ; he now presents 

 the public with another volume of Belgic Antiquities ; intended to illustrate 

 part of a statue, which was found likewise near that city, and is at this time 

 immured near the monument aforesaid, at the eastern end of the abbey-church, 

 fronting the grove. 



This fragment of an equestrian statue, is in basse relief: the rider has in 

 his right hand a hasta pura, and a parma in his left. It appears from Dio, that 

 Caius and Lucius, Caesars, the nephews, and adopted sons of Augustus, had 

 each of them a parma and a hasta given him : and there being no instance of 

 this honour paid to any of an inferior rank among the Romans, but only to 

 such as were of very great quality ; if not to Caesars only; we may from hence 

 be allowed to think, that this statue represented some person of that quality. 



But to endeavour to discover the particular person, the author compared a 

 very good draught he had procured of this horseman, with such Roman coins, 

 as he could meet with. This comparison showed a great resemblance between 

 the face in the statue, and that in two of Geta's coins. This argument, drawn 



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