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Again, in Lambecius his Bibliotheca Cat fared Vin- 
dobonenfs *, are two Figures, and the Defcription of 
a very large Elephant’s Tooth, which weighed 4 £ 
Pounds. It was fent from Conft ant inop le to Vienna 
in 1678, and offered to be fold to the Emperor for 
2.000 Rixdollarsy having been before, for its unufuai 
Size, and pretended great Antiquity, valued at 10,000 
Rixdollars. They pretended that it was found near 
Jerufalem , in a fpatious fubterranean Cavern, in the 
Grave of a Giant, which had the following Infcription 
upon it in the Chaldaic Language and Characters j Here 
lies the Giant O G *, whence it was conje&ured to have 
been the Tooth of Og , King of Bafan , who was defeated 
by Mofes , and who only remained of the Remnants 
of Giants ; whofe Bed-Jiead was of Iron , nine Cu- 
bits was the Length thereof and four Cubits the 
Breadth of it , after the Cubit of a Man f. As 
the whole Story look’d very like an Impofition, the 
Emperor ordered, that the Tooth (hould be fent back 
again to Confl ant inop le. 
Hieronymus Ambrofius Langenmantel , a Member 
of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, inferted into 
the Ephemerides of that Academy £ an Abftrad of 
a Letter to hiinfelf, from Johannes Ciampini in Rome , 
concerning fome very large Bones, to wit the Shank- 
bone, the Shoulder-bone, and five Vertebra*, of the 
Number whereof was one of the Vertebrae of the 
Neck, which were dug up near Vitorchiani , in the 
Bifhoprick of Viterbo , in the Year 1687. They 
weighed altogether upwards of 180 Roman Pounds, 
and having been compared with other the like Bones 
T Lib. viii. fag. 652. f Deuteronom. Cb. iii. v. 2. £ Decur. if. 
Annus vii. 5. 1688. Obf. ccxxxiy. pag. 426. 
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