(90) 
l>ig as a mans finger are of perdurable 
toughnefs and much ufed by the Indians^ 
the bone that growes upon thdr heart is an 
CKcellcnt Cordial, their bloud is as thick as 
an Affes or Bulls who have the thiqkeft 
bloud of all others, a man the thinneft.To 
what age they live I know not, certainly 
along time in their proper climate, S'wie 
f articular living Creatura cannot live in eve^ 
ry particular place or region , efpecially rptth 
the fame joy and feUciiy as it did vp^^re it was 
firfi br.d^ for the certain agreement of nature 
that is betmen the place and the thing bred in 
that place : jis appeareth by . Elephants , 
n>hich being tranjlated and brought out of the 
Second or 'ihird Climate^ though they may 
live^ yet rviU they never ingender or bring forth 
young* So for plants. Birds, ej^c. both 
thc(e Creatures, fome few there have been 
brought into England^ but did not long 
continue. Sir K. Baks^ in his Chronicle tells 
us of m Elephant in Henry the Thiids 
Raign, which he (aith was the firft that was 
ever ficn there, which as it feems is an error, 
unlcfs hercfirain it to the Nbrf^^«% t^^^^* 
For Mr. Speed wiitcth that Claudius Vrufius 
Effiperourof K^me brought in the firli in 
his Army 5 the bones of which diggM up 
fince are taken for Gyants bones. As for 
the Moofe the firft that was feen in England^ 
was. 
