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ded after a different manner ; fo that the inner Tooth on 
the one fide , and the outer on the other , was bigger than its 
adjoining Fellow , 'jet not fo as to be very unequal : and Mr. Du 
Verney and Mr Blaire had on both fides the much greater 
Tooth outwards : whereas the Weftminfter-.SFw//, on the con- 
trary, has only a fmall one outwards , and the much greater 
Grinder within. All which confidered, we may with Affurance 
conclude, that this Elephant found in Ireland had but four 
Teeth in his Head when he died ; and that the two Greater were 
thofe of the upper Jaws, and tfie other two thoje of the Un- 
der . 
Again, by the Size of the grinding Part , we may conclude 
thefe to be the Teeth of a Very young and fmall Elephant ; fince 
they are not much above half the Length of thofe that arc to be 
feen at Weftminfter, which belonged to a Beafl of not more 
than between i o and 1 1 Foot high j nor much above one Third 
of the Length of a fofjile Elephant's Grinder in the Royal So- 
ciety’* Repo fit cry, the which is here reprefnted by Fig, 7. ( all 
the Figures being drawn to the Scale of half their true Dimm- 
fions ). Hence it is not to be marvelled that the Bones of fo 
young an Animal , having not acquired their Firmity , as be- 
ing in a growing State, (houldbe diffolved by long lying in the 
Earth, as alfo the Roots of the Teeth. 
On this Occafion, perhaps it may not be amifs to quote a 
Paffage out of Mathew Paris his Hiftory , who affures us, that 
in his Tim Louis IX. (afterwards St. Louis) King of France, 
made a Prefent of an Elephant to his Cotemporary Henry III. 
ofEngland ; and that in the Tear 1255, after the Englilh had 
been fourfeore Te rs Maflers of Ireland. Of this fays 
Mathew, Nec credimus quod unquam aliquis Elephasvi- 
fus eft in Anglia prater ilium. 
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