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have by fome Writers been accounted Horns , was 
lately taken out of the Earth by digging in Bow- 
don-pa rva Field. Even the native Colour of it hath 
been in great me a fur e preferved ; but it is become 
brittle with lying in the Earth ; and was broken 
into three or four ‘Pieces tranfverfely by the Dig- 
gers in taking it up. The two larger Pieces of it , 
which happily came into Mr. Haldford’s Hands , were 
prefented to me. One of them is fomewhat above a 
Tard ; the other is two Foot in Length ; but the 
whole Tooth mufl needs have been at leaf fix Foot 
long ; — the thickefl Part of the biggefl Piece in my 
ToJfeJfion is fixteen Inches round. The Tooth lay 
buried above five Foot deep in the Earth. The 
Strata from the Surface downwards to the Place 
where the Tooth was lodged , were as follows : i. The- 
Soil 13 or 14 Inches . z. Loam , a Foot and a Half 
3. Large Pebbles , with a final l mixture of Earth 
amongfi them , two Foot and a Half. 4. Blue Clay.. 
In the upper Part of this Stratum the Tooth was 
found. Thus far Mr. Morton. That Part of this 
Tooth, which is now in my Hands, bears again very 
vilible Marks both of the Calcination it underwent by 
lying in the Earth, and of its laminated Structure (Fig. 5.)^ 
N° 1185", is the dens exert us , or Tusk of an Ele- 
phant, remarkable for its large Size, and for its being 
fo very entire. It was found under Ground in Siberia r 
and was brought from thence and given to mp by Mr.- 
Bell, an ingenious Surgeon, who was prefented with 
it by the Governor’s Lady, in Lieu of a Reward for 
having cured her of a Diftemper, upon his travelling 
through the Country in his pallage with the Caravan 
fent to China.. It is very entire, of a brown i(h 
Colour, 
