2G2 ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



honour to write to me, that there are there preserved ten jaws of Betten- 

 hausen, found while a well was heing sunk, and many fragments dis- 

 covered in a calcareous hill near Cassel. 



In the bason of the Elbe, besides the entire skeletons of the valley of 

 the Unstrut just mentioned, we find a quantity of bones of Esperstedt, 

 in the county of Mansfeld, between Halle in Saxony and Querfurt, 

 and in a valley that terminates in the vale of the Sala * ; a circum- 

 stance that is rather extraordinary, because a part of them were found 

 in a quarry of hard stone. 



Scheuchzer preserved a molar in his museumf ; he had another, found 

 at Querfurt at the source of a little stream that falls into the Sala J. 



It would appear from the testimony of Buttner, that these quarries of 

 Querfurt, of Esperstedt, and their vicinities are very rich in these fossil 

 bones §. 



They have lately found a tooth ten inches long and six pounds in 

 weight at the village of Reinsdorf in the same district. It was at the 

 bottom of a hillock in a bed of clay, twenty-four inches from the 

 surface ||. 



In 1672, the Sala threw up near Kumberb, a little below Iena, a 

 tusk six feet long, and, on some excavations being made, six molar 

 teeth and a number of large bones were exhumed ^j. 



They have recently been found on the Elba itself**, below Des- 

 sau, at Potsdam, at the confluence of the Havel and the Spreeff, 

 and at Wester-Egeln, upon the Buda, six miles from Magdebourg. 

 The latter are said to have been discovered in a quarry of gyp- 

 sum ; but it is probable that it was on or near some layers of gyp- 

 sum like those of Tiede |J. 



in the month of June, 1809, they discovered some elephants' bones 

 at Zellendorf, a village near the little town of Seyda, which is close to 

 Wittemberg. Some of them were procured by MM. Langguth and 

 Nitsch, professors at Wittemberg, and they are still preserved in the 

 museum of the former. They were six feet below the surface, in a 

 gravel bed, in a hollow, half a league from Zellendorf, close to a little 

 reservoir, in a place from which the inhabitants draw marl ; and they 

 recollect having seen similar bones there thirty years ago. All that 

 M. Langguth could save, from the awkwardness of the workmen, con- 

 sists of two jaws, of nine plates each, and a few fragments §§. 



Sondershausen on the Wipra, which falls into the Unstrut, also 

 belongs to the bason of the Elbe. Walch |||| tells us, that the bones 



* Hoffmann and Beychlag on the Fossil Ivory of Halle, p. 9 ; Schultz's Com- 

 merc. Litt. Norimb., 1732, p. 405 ; and Buttner Ruder, dil. test., p. 215. 



■f" Antediluvian Museum, p. 101, No. xxv. 



X Ibid., No. xv. 



§ Buttner, Ruder, dil. test. 223, &c. 



|| Gazette de France, 18th January, 1821. 



% Buttner, in the passage before quoted, p. 215. 



** Meincke's Society of Naturalists at Berlin, p. 479. 



ft Fucb's ibid., p. 474. 



XX Archives of the Discoveries of the Primitive World, by Ballenstadt and Kruger, 

 1821, vol. ii, p. 419. 



§§ Wittemberg Papers, No. xxv, 1809. I owe this reference to the friendship of 

 M. Chladni. 



IHI Knorr's Monuments, vol. ii, sect, ii, p. 163. 



