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gin to appear above the Gumms , is femicircular, with the fore- 
mentioned Ridges and Sulci running tranfverjly , four on the 
Right Side and five on the Lefty the other half (or Tooth l 
fuppofe he means) has five of thefe Eminences where it 
grinds on the Right, and four on the Left : each of the four 
Teeth is fix Inches long, and has fix or feven of the foremen- 
tioned Eminences and at many Depreftons : thefe Teeth are 
the moft firm , f olid and weighty Bones of any Animal yet known. 
So much from Mr. Blair. 
The other Author I lhali produce For the further Illu- 
ftration of this Matter, is the laborious and accurate 
Naturalifi Mr. Ray t who, in his Synopfis Animalium §>uadru- 
pedum, when he comes ro give us the Delcription of 
the Elephant , has the following Words. Os pro mole Bel- 
lua parvum, quatuor in utrdque maxilla Dent thus molaribus 
feu Dentium molarium Maflis Infiruttum ; fi quidem plurimi 
Dentes in Os folidum & durum itainfixi funt y ut cum eo 
& inter fe unum & continuum Corpus efficiant. Dentes hi 
line as parallel as undulatas olio vel novem in fuperjicie maff£ 
efficiunt \ funtque reliquo offc candidiores: Maff<e integrx , 
Dentium fingularlum modo, per Gomphofin maxillis inferuntur. 
Inciforibus cmnino caret. 
Thus Mr. Ray in very proper and exprefiive Terms 
defcribes the Teeth of this Animal : and truly if your Grace 
will but compare Mr. Blairs Words with his, and the 
Particulars of both Accounts with the Delcription and 
Figures we have before given of the Teeth dug up in Ire- 
land, and oblerve how they all agree exa<ftly, even lo as 
one may fay they tally together, I think it will amount to 
nothing left than Demonftration, and that all our Ideas 
have been taken from one and the fame Natural Objeff ; and 
as they, fo we, muft certainly have delcribed no other 
Teeth but thole of the Elephant. 
But then perhaps it will be ask’d what is become of 
all the reft ofth eTeeth that were in the upper Jaw, which 
being 
