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I. An Account of Elephants Teeth and Bones 
found under Ground. By Sir Hans Sloane, (Bart. 
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I T is obfervable, that among the vaft Variety of ex- 
traneous Subftances lodged and found in feveral 
Layers of the Earth, at confiderable Depths, where 
it is impoflible that they fhould have beerr bred, 
there are not fo many Produ&ions of the Earth, as of 
the Sea. And again, among thofe which muft have 
originally belonged to the Earth, there are many more 
remains of Vegetables, than of Land Animals. It ap- 
pears, however, by the Hiftories of paft Times, and 
the Accounts of many, both antient and modern Au- 
thors, that Bones, Teeth, nay fometimes very near 
entire Skeletons of Men and Animals have been dug 
up in all Ages of which we have Hiftories, and al- 
moft in all Parts of the World, whereof thofe, which 
were the moft remarkable for their unufual Size, have 
been alfo the moft taken Notice of. Thus, for In- 
ftance, they have found in Ireland , the Horns, Bones, 
and almoft entire Skeletons of a very large Sort of Deer, 
which is commonly believed to have been the Moufe* 
Deer, an Animal of an uncommon Size, fome of which 
Kind are thought to be ftill alive in fome remote and 
unfrequented Parts of the Continent of America. I 
lhall in this Paper confine my felf chiefly to the Ele- 
phant, and fuch Bones, dentes exerti , Tusks and 
Teeth of this Animal, as are either in my own Pof- 
feffion, or have been mentioned by Authors I have 
Q-fl ft met 
