( 5 1 1 ) 
Ground, and at confiderable Depths too, had been 
buried there either by the Romans , or any other Na- 
tion, the Strata above them mult neceflarily have 
been broke through and altered; whereas on the 
contrary leveral Obfervations inform us, that they 
were found entire, whence it evidently appears, that 
what is found underneath, mull have been lodged 
there, if not before, at lead at the very Time when 
thefe Strata were formed; confequently long before 
the Romans. But there is another Argument, which 
feems to me to bear very hard againft the Conjec- 
tures of Goropius and Count Marfili. Tentzelius 
hath already mentioned it, and it is urged from the 
great Value of Ivory at all Times, and particularly 
among the Romans , which appears by many Paffages 
in antient Authors ; as for Inftance, by a very re- 
markable one in Rliny *, who takes Notice, That 
among the valuable Prefents, which the Ethiopians 
were obliged to make to the Kings of Rerjia , by 
Way of a Tribute, there were twenty large Teeth 
(unqueftionably the dentes exerti ) of Elephants, and 
then adds, Tanta ebori auEior 'ttas erat . Now it is 
to be prefumed, that the Romans would not have 
neglected to take away the Teeth, and particularly 
the dentes exerti of dead Elephants, before they 
flung their CarcafTes into the YVater, whereas there 
hath fcarce been any Skeleton, or any Part of the 
Skeleton of an Elephant dug up any where, but the 
Teeth were found along with them, and even among 
thofe figured by Count Marfili , there are three 
Grinders, and a confiderable Part of one of the 
dentes exerti . 
Du 
Lib. xii, C. 4. 
