ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF THE ELEPHANT. 265 



surgeon of London, and to Mr. Buckland, professor of geology in the 

 university of Oxford. The tusks were very much curved, like most of 

 those of Siberia. Mr. Parkinson had one, found at Wellsbourn, in the 

 same county *. 



There was a lower jaw exhumed at Trentham, in Staffordshire f. 

 Mr. Parkinson had a molar with very thick plates, also found in 

 Staffordshire J. 



In 1700, a quantity of large bones, among which was a shoulder, 

 were dug up at Wrebness, near Harwich, on the river Stour, in 

 Essex. They were in a gravel bed, sixteen feet below the surface §. 



M. DeBurtin has a molar from the neighbourhood of Harwich ||. 



In the month of August, 1803, they found a huge skeleton, thirty 

 feet long, near the same town ; but the bones crumbled to atoms on 

 being handled. It is probable that this measurement was rather 

 guessed at than accurately ascertained^. 



Mr. Parkinson likewise speaks of bones of elephants found with 

 those of other large animals, particularly the rhinoceros, at Cape 

 Walton, a little to the south of Harwich ; they were also in gravel, 

 reposing upon clay. He also mentions a lower jaw, and several 

 teeth, with very narrow plates, found in the county of Essex**. 



In 1745, there were found at Norwich, in Norfolkshire, a molar 

 tooth, weighing eleven English pounds, and several large bones f f° 



The mineralogical map of England further points out three places 

 on the coast of Norfolk, where depots of elephants' bones were 

 found ; and one in Yorkshire, between Whitby and Scarborough. 



Owing to the kind communication of M. G. A. Deluc, I have myself 

 had an opportunity of inspecting the bone of the joint of the little 

 toe of the right fore foot found at Kew, in Surrey, eighteen feet be- 

 low the surface. Of the lesser incumbent soils, one foot and a half 

 was mould, five feet a reddish sandy clay, good for making bricks, eight 

 of flinty gravel, and three of reddish sand, reposing upon clay. This 

 sand contained a quantity of bones of another description ; amongst 

 others, the nucleus of the horn of an animal of the genus ox j and in 

 the same field they found, in clay, a tusk eight feet seven inches long, 

 which fell to pieces on being touched. The clay contained shells; and, 

 amongst others, those of the nautilus, according to Mr. Deluc ; but, 

 perhaps, they are nothing more than the mollusca planorbial JJ, 



In addition to this, Mr. Peale mentions some bones having been 

 found in the plain of Salisbury in Wiltshire, near Bristol in Somerset- 

 shire, and in the Isle of Dogs §§. Dom Calmet had previously spoken 



* Fossil Remains, vol. iii, p. 345. 



f Sloane, ibid., p. 467 ; and Plot's Nat. Hist, of the County of Stafford. 



X Fossil Remains, vol. iii, p. 344, plate xx, fig. 6. 



§ John Luff kin, Phil. Trans., vol. xxii, No. 274, p. 924. 



|| Burton's Prize Essay of Haarlem, p. 25. •. 



If Fortia d'Urban's Considerations on the Ancient Origin and History of the 

 Globe. Paris, 1807, p. 188. 



** Fossil Remains, vol. iii, p. 344. 



ft Henry Baker, Phil. Trans., vol. 45, p. 331. 



XX These details are extracted from a letter written to me by the late M. G. A. 

 Deluc, dated Geneva, 6th of December, 1805. 



§§ Historical Disquisition on the Mammoth, p. 7, note. 



