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The two Bones of the Metatarfus remaining are thin, broadband 
irregular • the firft whereof is 2 l Inches broad, and 2 | long ; 
weighing each p. to which alfo adheres a fmall Bone, as in the* 
former 1 oe, but lefs. T he fecond and iaft of the Metatarsus on 
the infidc is two Inches broad, and as much long, thin like the 
former, having a fmall Protuberance adjoin'd inftead of a Toe. 
1 he Bones of the 4th Toe weigh and the 5th \j. 
I once defigned to have compar’d more particularly the Bones 
now deferib’d, with thofe of Tentaelius and Dr. Moulins ; 
But fince both thefe Treatifes have been already communi- 
cated to the R. S. and I doubt not are in the Hands of moft 
of the Honourable Members thereof; and fince I have already r r 
infilled longer upon thefe, than 1 fuppofe you expetted, 1 fhall^fff^^ 
only put you in mind in few Words, that Tentulius tells his huh thofe 
Friend, that in digging in a Hill near Erfurt in Germany for a fin e treated of by 
white Sand, there were found feveral huge Bones, firft miftaken Tcuttclius. 
for a Giants $ but upon tryal, and the perufal of Dr. Moulins % 
Treatifes, known to be the Bones of an Elephant : And that among 
the reft there were found the Head 42 Inches Diameter ; two 
Tusks 2 i Spans large, and 8 foot long ; four Grinders, each 
1 2 tb. the Humerus 4 foot 2 k Spans •, the Vertebra of the Neck, 
each 4 Spans in Circumference, and 2 Spans high ; the Opt inno' 
minata 2 l foot long ; with the Head of the Femur inferted in the 
Acetabulum, and part of the Tibia 22 Inches at the biggeft, and 
17 at the fmalleft part: That they were obliged to dig 24 foot 
deep, before they could get out the Head ; that the Bones lay 
in fuch aPofture, as betoken its being over- whelm’d, or having 
had great. Struglings while a dying; viz., the Left fore Foot 
ftretch’d forward to the fide of the Head, which lay toward the 
North, the Right inclining backward under the Body; the Left 
hind Foot drawn in toward the Body, and the Right diftorted 
here and there, out of its Natural Pofture. From all which he 
concludes this to have been the largeft Elephant that ever was 
feen in Europe-, and that it could be brought hither by no other 
means than the Fiood, both from the Preternatural pofture of the 
Body, and from the different Strata of Earth lying above it, with- 
out the leaft fign of having been digg’d to bury it. 
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