266 ON THIS FOSSIL BONES OK FACHYDKRMATOUS QUADRUPED*. 



of a giant found in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, near the famous 

 Stonehenge *. 



In 1 630, a portion of the skull and some teeth were found at Glou- 

 cester, near the Severn f. 



Pennant J procured two molars and a tusk from Flintshire ; they were 

 found by some miners in a gravel bed, beneath a lead mine, one hundred 

 and eighteen feet below the surface : among the upper 9trata was one 

 of calcareous stone, from eleven to twelve feet thick ; the antlers of a 

 stag were found with these bones. I have a strong suspicion that this 

 position has not been accurately described, otherwise it would be 

 unique in its kind. 



Ireland has yielded the bones of elephants even in its most northern 

 counties. In 1715, four fine jaw bones were exhumed at Magherry, 

 near Belturbet, in the county of Cavan, as the inhabitants were dig- 

 ging the foundation of amill§. 



Even Scandinavia, though so little qualified to afford subsistence to 

 living elephants, nevertheless contains their fossil bones. 



M. Quensel, superintendant of the Museum of Natural History at 

 Stockholm, has been so kind as to send me the drawing of a large 

 lower jaw, very much worn, belonging to his museum, it was found in 

 a hill of sand near the river Fie in Ostrobothnia. 



.1. J. Daebeln gave descriptions and drawings of gigantic bones || ex- 

 humed in 1735 at Falkenberg, in the province of Holland. To judge 

 by the figures, they are the first rib and a bone of the carpus of an 

 elephant. 



The bones exhumed in Norway, spoken of by Pantoppidan, cannot 

 be referred to any other animal^f. In fine, even Iceland does not prove 

 an exception to the general list. 



Thomas Bartholin mentions the jaw of an elephant as having been 

 sent from that island to Resenius, who presented it to the public 

 Museum of the University of Copenhagen. It was petrified in silex **. 



Sloane was in possession of one which had been changed into the 

 same matter tt. but he does not mention where it was found. 



Pantoppidan likewise tells us, on the authority of Torfseus, of a skull 

 and a tooth of prodigious size found in Iceland. 



To the east of Germany commences those immense sandy plains 

 which give their name to Poland, spreading over the entire breadth of 

 Russia, as far as the Caspian Sea and the Ouralian Mountains. 



The first bason we meet with in this line is that of the Oder. For 

 particulars relative to this bason we must consult the Silesia Subter- 

 ranea of Volkmann. He there speaks of a shoulder bone IX suspended 



* Dictionary of the Bible, p. 460. 

 f Sloane's Acad, des Sc. 1727, p. 445. 

 X Pennant's works, vol. xv, p. 158. 



§ Francis Neville, Phil. Trans., vol. xxix, No. 349, p. 367. See also Neville and 

 Molyneux's Nat. Hist, of Ireland, Dublin, 1726, in quarto, p. 128. 

 || Act. Ac. Nat. Cur., vol. v. 



^f Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist, of Norway, English translation, 1755, vol. ii, p. 262. 

 ** Act. Med. Hafn, vol. i, p. 83, No. xlvi. 



ft Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, 12mo, 1727, vol. ii, p. 447. 

 XX Plate xxv, fig. 1. 



