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JIL A Second Letter of Dr Wallis to the Puh^ 
lifher^ relating .to Mr Somner's Treatife of 
Ghartham Wews : AnJ^ fome Magnetick Af- 
fairs. 
• Oxford, Decemb. 30.. 170 1. 
SIR, 
^Incc my Letter of Sepemk 20. 1701, (which, with 
^ the Poft-fcript, you have thougnt fit to puWifli in 
your Tran factions, iox October if 01.^ relating to the 
Difcourfe called Chartham^News, in your Tranfaftions for 
July 1701, (miPnumbred 271, inftead of 272,) written 
by the inquifitive *and learned Antiquary Mr William 
. Sommr^ Q to whom, I fince find, we are beholden for 
divers other Pieces, befide thofe I mentioned in that Let- 
ter : ) I have feen a Letter of Mr "john Luffkin ( in your 
Tranfadions for &PM7CI. ) which informs us, of di- 
vers B^^z/ej (of an Extraordinai'y bignefs) found lately 
(in a Gravel-pitJ not far from Banvich in Ejfex,'( much 
like to thofe found at Chart-ham in Kent^ J at a, great 
-Depth under Ground, which Bone, he thinks, rather to 
have been the Bone of an Elephant^ tlian of an Hippopo- 
tamus^ or other Marine Animal. 
But, whether the one, or the other, it matters not • 
much as to the^ prefenc purpofe. For, either way, it 
will equally prove, thofe Valleys to have been much 
Deeper, in former times, than now. 
If you could obtain from Mr Alderman Gray of Cart- 
■terinry., a fight of thofe Piftures (which he hathj of the 
Bones mentioned by Mr ^omner ( which, I prefume, he 
-would not deny:) or, caufe new Draughts of them to 
be 
