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ter of the World was known, and is the only Region I 
can hear, where this great Beaft is found at prefent. 
And can we well magine that Foxes , Otters, Badgers, 
Tigers, Wolves, with Linxes and fuch ravenous Animals 
as we have been told, have lately been diicovered by the 
great Snows that fell this prefent Winter in the Inland of 
Sardinia and other Places, Ihould ever be imported (being 
ufelefs noxious Beafts of Prey) by the Induftry of Man , 
to propagate in I [lands, that they might deftroy Mens Food 
and Flocks, and make their Lives not only uneafy but 
unfafe ? 
Nay how can we fuppofe that Birds of Ihorteft Flight, 
the various Sorts of poifonous Serpents , and of offenlive 
Creeping Vermin , with all the various Tribes of Imaller 
Infrtfs, could pofTiblybe found in Iflands , unlels they had 
been Rock’d with thofe Inhabitants when the Intercourfe 
between them and the Continent was free and open. 
But in whatever manner this Elephant (to return to 
our Subjetft) might firft have made its way for Ireland ; 
this is beyond dilpute, that the Bones of Elephants have 
been difcovered deep under Ground,in other Places as well 
as this Kingdom : and thofe too out of the way, far di- 
ftant from the Native Countries of this Animal. 
For not many Years ago, in a Hill near Erfurt , a Town 
of the Upper Saxony in Germany , feveral Parts of the Skele- 
ton of an Elephant were Dug up .• on which Occafion 
Wilhelmus Ernefius Tentzelius Hiftoriographer to the Duke 
of Saxony, writ a Letter to the very learned Antonio Mag - 
liabechi , Library Keeper to the great Duke of Florence; 
This Treadle is publifhed, but I have not been fo lucky as 
to procure a Sight of it, and know no more but juft the 
Title-page Wilhelmi Ernefli Tentzelii Hiflorlographi Puca - 
Its Saxonia Epiftola, de Sceleto Elephantino Tonnes nuper 
ejfoffo, ad Antoninm Magliabechium , Magni Duels Hetrur'u 
Bibliothecarium . 
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