26*0 ON THE FOSSIL BOXES .OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



monly in the marshes. The jaw was found a little ahove the Roman 

 Rampart, which extends from the Theiss to the Danube, opposite to 

 Peter- Yaradin; and this circumstance was quite sufficient to give it a 

 Roman origin. The vertebra and the teeth were found in a marsh 

 of the Syrmia, between the Save and the Buszut, and the peasants say 

 there were ribs found in the same place. In fine, the shoulder was 

 from another marsh near Fogaras, in Transylvania, formerly the resi- 

 dence of the princes of the country, and lying close to the river Alts. 

 Part of these pieces are still preserved in the Museum of the Insti- 

 tute of Bologne, where I have seen them. 



Fichtel* tells us that a tusk six feet long was extracted from a 

 little mound entirely composed of nummularia, near Jegenye, in the 

 district of Rolocz, which empties itself into the Maiosch. This would 

 be a circumstance unique in its way, if it were well authenticated; but 

 it is possible that some soft layers, filled with nummularia, may have 

 fallen down on a more modern soil. 



The Literary Journal of Gcettinguef speaks of bones and teeth found 

 near Harasztos, a village adjoining Klausbourg, whose waters fall into 

 the Theiss. 



Bruckmann had already made mention of the calcined teeth of Tran- 

 sylvania J. 



But to return to Germany : we find in the bason of the Weser the 

 skeleton exhumed in 1722, at Tiede, in the valley of the Ocker, quite 

 close to Wolfenbuttel on the high road leading from Gcettingue to 

 Brunswick §. Leibnitz had previously published the engraving of a 

 jaw found in the same place ||. 



M. Berger, a surgeon of Brunswick, has very recently made a 

 most magnificent discovery of a prodigious quantity of bones, tusks, 

 and jaws of elephants, collected together in a heap with the bones of 

 the rhinoceros, the horse, the stag, and the ox. There is a very fine en- 

 graving of this wonderful heap published in 1818, by M. C. Schroe- 

 der; for a knowledge of which fact I am indebted to the friendly com- 

 munication of the celebrated M. Blumenboch, accompanied by a little 

 essay from the pen of M. Charles Bieling, veterinary surgeon to 

 the Duke of Brunswick ^f. Another account of them may be seen 

 in the Brunswick Magazine for 1817, Nos. 19 and 20 ; in the Ana- 

 lis de Physique of Gilbert, eleventh number, 1817, translated into the 

 Universal Library of Geneva, for February, 1818, in the Archives of 

 the Primitive World, by M. Ballenstedt, a grazier, living near Bruns- 

 wick, and in several other works. 



These bones were lying at the foot of a hill, composed of gypsum 



* Treatise on the Petrifactions of the grand Duchy of Transylvania. Nuremburg, 

 .1780, vol. ii, p. 119. 



f No. 6, 1798. 



J Travelling Epistles, 48. I quote it from Targioni, for I have not been able to 

 find the passage. 



§ Bruckmann's Epist. Itin. 30, and Hamburg Berichte, vol. of 17-14. 



|| Protogrea, last plate. 



^ Wolfenbuttel, 1819, in 4to., German title. History of the Discovery and a Re- 

 presentation of the Geognostic Situation of the Group of Bones aud Fossil Teeth 

 discovered near the village of Tiede, &c. 



