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and by Esper*, situated between the villages of Kahldorf and Raiter- 

 buch, three leagues from Aichstedt. Here, too, as at Canstadt, at 

 Fouvent,and elsewhere, the elephant bones were found in company with 

 those of the hyena. Mr. Hammer has in his possession a vertebra and 

 a portion of a head, found near Aichstedt in 1 770. In the collection 

 of M. Ebel, at Bremen, I have seen a molar tooth, said to have been 

 found in the same place. Although decidedly fossil in its appearance, 

 it bore a strong resemblance to the molars of Africa. 



In a memoir of M. Scemmerring, on the fossil bones of the Academy 

 of Munich, read to that society on the 10th of January, 1818, allusion 

 is made to some fragments of ivory exhumed in September, 1 8 1 7 , at 

 Miihldorf on the Inn, and to another fragment found at Burghausen 

 on the Salzach, a river which falls into the Inn. 



M. Schlotheim speaks of a skeleton exhumed near Passau, at the 

 confluence of the Inn and the Danube, many fragments of which are in 

 his possession f. 



At Krembs, a little lower down, a jaw tooth was dug up by the 

 SwedesJ in 1644, while employed in digging a trench; and a tibia 

 and a thigh were found at Baden, near Vienna, on the river Schwecha §. 



To these we might be tempted to add the supposed giant, likewise 

 found near Krembs, in 1 645 ; but we know at present, as shall be 

 shown in its proper place, that it was the body of a narrow-toothed 

 mastodon. 



The fossil ivory of Moravia, mentioned by Wormius ||, also belonged 

 to the great bason of the Danube. 



The immense skull exhumed in 1805 at Wulfersdorf, not far from 

 Bleya, mentioned by Andrew Stutz in his Oryctography of lower 

 Austria^], was found at a short distance from the same place. 



With regard to that part of the bason which stretches along into 

 H ungary, we have in the first place the bones of elephants found at 

 Kayser-Steinbruck, immediately on the other side of the -Leitha, which 

 are likewise noticed by Andrew Stutz. 



We read in the Journal of the Empire of the 25th of December, 

 1807, an article dated Frankfort the 21st, announcing the discovery 

 of several parts of the skeleton of an elephant, in a high state of pre- 

 servation, at Neustsedtl or Vag-Ujheli, on the Vag in Hungary, where 

 the soil had been perforated to a considerable depth. 



M. Hammer has in his possession the fragment of a molar tooth 

 found at Buggau, near Schemnitz, in Hungary. The waters of this 

 river fall into the Gran. 



We may see in Marsigli, article the Danube, page 73, and plates 

 xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxi, a vertebra of the neck, a fragment of the 

 shoulder, a molar tooth, a fragment of a tusk, and a very large lower 

 jaw, found in different parts of Hungary and Transylvania, most com- 



* Society of Naturalists at Berlin, vol. v. 



t Essay on the Knowledge of Petrifactions, p. 5. 



X European Theatre, vol. v. Seybold Medulla Mirabil., p. 439. 



§ Lambecius, Bib. cecs., vol vi, pp. 315,316. Happelius Relat. cur., vol. iv, p. 4' 



|| Mus., p. 54. 



*; Vienna, 1807, in 12mo.,p- 164. 



