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in feveral Collections at Rome , particularly the Chi- 
flan one, they appeared to be by far the largeft. 
Mod People took them to be the Bones of a Giant, 
but Ciampini , and fome others, taking them, with 
more Probability, for the Bones of an Elephant, or 
fome other large Animal, and knowing that there 
was in the Medicean Collection at Florence a com- 
pieat Skeleton of an Elephant, they procured a Copy 
of it, and found upon Comparifon, the above-men- 
tioned Bones fo exactly to correlpond with it, as to 
leave no Room to doubt, but that rhey had been 
Part of an Elephant’s Skeleton. 
The Skeleton of an Elephant which was dug up 
in a Sand-pit near Tonna in Thur ingen , in 1695*, is 
one of the molt curious, and alfo the molt compleat 
in its Kind, forafmuch as they found the whole Head, 
with four Grinders, and the two dentes exerti , or 
Tusks, the Bones of the fore and Hind-legs, one of 
the Shoulder-bones, the Back-bones, with the Ribs, 
and feveral of the Vertebras of the Neck. But the 
whole hath been fo accurately defcribed by JVilhel- 
mns Ernejlus Tentzelius , Hiftoriographer to the 
Dukes of Saxony , in a Letter to the learned Magli- 
abechi , printed in the Thilofophical Tran factions 
that it is needlefs to add any thing, the rather, as 
that Gentleman was pleafed to oblige the Royal 
Society with fome Pieces of the Bones of this Ele- 
phant, with Part of the Skull, wherein appeared its 
Cells, fome of the Grinders, and Part of the dentes 
exerti ; all which being produced at a Meeting of the. 
Royal Society , were found exaCtly agreeable to his 
Defcription, and ordered to be carefully preferved in 
'* N c 134. p*g. 737 - 
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