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the body to be changed, as indeed it appears to have been in this 
infiance of om petrified bone : for with it was found a toothy de- 
pidedF/^. 5. in its exaft bignefs, weighing two ounces and 
not at all petrified but perfeft bone ftill, rather exceeding than any- 
thing (liort of It \n proportion-^ whence it muftneceffarily be con- 
cluded, that there could be but little if any augmentation at 
all. 
1 60. And if it be afked how it (liould come to pafs that the: 
thigh-bone (liould be petrified^ and not the tooth, it may be an- 
fwered, and that experimentally too, that teeth admit not fo ea- 
fily of any change or petrification^ becaufe they are much more 
clofely com parted y«/^y?^a:;2ce5 than any other bones ; whence 'tis, 
that we fo often find them found and good, when all other bones 
are confumed. Thus at Batkendown^ or Bannerdown (the Mons 
Badonicu^o^ Nenniws) not far from S^//? in Somerfet-fiire^ there 
have been Cap fulls of picked up by fuch as followed the 
Plough', but we are told of no other bones found there. And 
we are informed by 7azellu6, in his Hiftory of Sicily^ that of 
two Giants Sceletons, one found by Johannes a brachiis fortibu^^ in 
rhe Field Gibilo^ a mile South of the Town Mazarenum^ now^ 
Mazara% and the o/^erby ? aulws Leontinws ^ not far from P^/er- 
7770, that when they came to be touched, all fell into dull but the 
denies molares^ or the greater teeth called the Grinders ^, fufH- 
cient Arguments (I had almoft faid) of their unalterable ftate. 
161. Since then it feems to be manifeft, that the cize of the 
bone has been fcarce alter'd in its petrification \ It remains, that 
it muft havebelong'd to fome greater ^;7/«z/j/ than cither an Ox or 
Horfe ; and if fo (fay almoftall other Authors in the like cafe) in 
probability it muft have been iht bone {om€ Elephant brought 
hither during the Government of the Romans in Britan : But this 
opinion too lies under fo great difficulties, that it can hardly be 
admitted ; which are briefly thefe. 
162. Firft, That we do not find that any of the Roman Au- 
thors^ who elfewhere are large enough in defcribing the Ele- 
phanls behavior in fight ^ and how terrible they were to fome of 
the Trans-Alpine Nations, mention any fuch matter in any of 
their Expeditions into Britan, Dion\ 'tis true, fays. That ^/jz^- 
i Annals, in the Life of King Arthur. K Tlio. Fa!z,elli reku Smlk Deca^.prioruj iih \. cap 6. 
* Dion is Caffii Rom. Hijt. lib. 60, 
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