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I come now to the laft thing I propos’d, which is .the Me- 
The Met hoi thod I us’d in mounting the Sceleton • and becaufe Di. Moult ns's 
ef mounting wa y 0 p na i{ing a Plate of Iron to the Roof of the Mouth, in 
the Sceleun.- w hi c h the Iron Rod that run through the Vertebra of the Neck 
was faftned, would have been inconvenient, by fpoiling the back- 
part of the Scull, obftru&ing its View, and making the Head 
look too much forward, which was the fault of his Sceleton, as 
represented by the Figure, I contriv’d another, w hich is as fol- 
lows. ... ... 
There was an Iron Rod made about the bignefs of one for a 
Connexion of Bed, as long as the Elephant, from the Forehead to the Point of 
the Head, the Tail, being 14 Foot, which pafs’d in at the fore-part of the 
Scull above the Hole for the Root of the Trunk, and run back 
amidft the fore Cellules , paffing along the lower part of the Seat of 
the Brain, and going out at the lower part of the Hole for the 
Spinal Marrow ^ and left the inconveniency of its Weight (as Dr. 
Moulim fear’d) fhould happen to break the tender Laming there 
was another Rod of the fame bignefs, which pafs’d in at the one 
fide of the Head, where the Depreffion is for Infertion of the 
Mufcles of the Lower Jaw and Probofcis , and run through th iC elides. 
at the fide, going tranfverfely along the lower part of the Seat of 
the Brain below the former, and palling out at the other fide ; by 
which this Rod, from the Bight to the Left, eafes the Burthen 
©f the other, in fupporting the Head on both fides, as well as the 
other did before. And leafi: any of thefe fhould Hide out, I caus’d 
to be ferew’d a Piece of Iron upon each Extremity of that which 
pafs’d from the Right to the'Left, and upon the fore end of that 
which did run from before to behind. Afterwards the fecond 
Vertebra in the middle of its Tooth, and all the other following 
Vertebra were perforated in the Center of their Bodies; and -to 
make the Head Bill more fteady, the Bafe of the Scull was twice 
perforated on each fide of the Hole for the Spinal Marrow ; and 
a ftrong Wire being pafs’d through thefe Holes, it run from 
the Right to the Left above the Rod, and kept it firm, left it 
fhould have bended, and fuffer’d the Head to incliae too much 
downward by its Weight. 
Cmn- -in The joining of the Lower Jaw, which is perhaps the melt 
'tf&elwtr P on ^ erous Boae in a Py Land Animal, was next to be confder’d ; 
J ' ' therefore two Wires were pafs'd in at about one Inch diftant 
: from each other running, from above to below, to. that part of 
the 
