25S ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



is a mass of curious calcareous white gravel, entirely formed of in- 

 crustations of aquatic plants. 1 have frequently visited it myself; and 

 have just learned from M. Autenrieth, that he has discovered the ske- 

 leton of a horse there. In 1 745, a tusk weighing fifty pounds was 

 found there ; and M. Jaeger brought away from the same place, a few 

 years since, the lower jaw of an elephant. This is the place observed 

 by Guettard, and which he mistook for Canstadt*. Some bones were 

 likewise found in this valley, some above and some below Stuttgart. 

 Nay, a short time since, as they were excavating a cellar, quite close 

 to the walls of this latter town, they found the skeleton of a large 

 elephant, two large trunks and one smaller one, in the reddish and 

 blue clay. In the valley of the Rems, which emerges below Canstadt, 

 they found a large molar tooth. M. Storr discovered another on the 

 upper Necker, near Tubingue. The lower Necker has yielded them 

 at Weinsperg, near Heilbronf; and, besides the large skull already 

 noticed, it was near the junction of that river with the Rhine that they 

 found the lower jaws, which have been deposited at Darmstadt. 

 Bausch \> on the authority of Boetius de Boodt, mentions some fossil 

 ivory found in the neighbourhood of Heidelberg, and Geyer mentions 

 some bones and teeth found at Manheim §. 



The narrow valley of Kocher yielded tusks near Halle in Luabia, 

 in 1494 and 1 605. The last of these is to be seen to this day, hang- 

 ing in the church of Halle ; it is five hundred pounds in weight ||, but 

 doubtless this includes the iron-work that supports it. An inscription 

 on it tells us that there were close to it several large bones. In 1728, 

 a conflagration having destroyed one-third of this town, they discovered, 

 while digging the new r foundations, a quantity of fossil ivory, and one 

 tusk seven feet and a half in length. A molar from the same place is 

 engraved in the Museum Closterianum, fig. S. 



Among the bones of the valley of the Mein, and those of its tri- 

 butary streams, Bausch, in his work on fossil ivory, p. 190, mentions 

 a tusk nine feet long, found near Schweinfurt in 1571; a second, 

 from the same place, in 1 648 ; a third, thirteen or fourteen feet long, 

 in 1649 — all outside fortifications of that city; one in 1595, at CarJ- 

 bach, near Hamelburg; one in 1649, at Zeil, thrown up by an inun- 

 dation of the Mein. They had found some in the same place as early 

 as 1631, and they again found others in 1657; one near VVurtzburg, 

 one in the neighbourhood of Bamberg, one from the vicinity of Ge- 

 roldshofen; a molar, weighing twelve pounds, near Arnstein, in 1655. 

 If we cast our eyes over a map of Franconia, we shall see that all those 

 places, from Bamberg to Wurtzburg, do not occupy more than twenty- 

 six leagues, measuring the curves of the valley of the Mein. 



With regard to the great bason of the Danube, we have in the first 

 place the rich depot in the valley of Altmuhl, described by Collini^J 



* See the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences of Paris for 1763. 

 f Bausch on Fossil Ivory, p. 189. 

 I Ibid. 



§ Miscellany of Natural Curiosities. 



U Dissertatio inauguralis, physico medica de Ebore fossili, Suevico Halensi, praes. 

 Fr. Hoffmann auct. Joh. Fred. Beyschlag, 1734. 

 ^f Memoirs of the Academy of Manhein, vol, v. 



