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Dr. Robert Tlot in his Natural Hiftory of StafFord- 
fhire *, fays. That he was prefented by {Villi am 
Levefon Gower of 'Trent ham, Efq; with the lower 
Jaw of fome Animal, with large Teeth flicking in it, 
dug up in a Marle-pit in his Ground, and which upon 
Comparifon he found exa&ly agreeable to the lower 
Jaw of the Elephant’s Skull in Mr. AJhmole 1 s Mufettm 
at Oxford. 
In the Mufeum of the Royal Society there are 
two Foflil-bones of Elephants : One was given by 
Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich , the other was 
brought from Syria for the Os Tibia of a Giant, but 
Dr. Grew j proves by an exaCt Computation, that 
it can never have been the Os Tibia of a human 
Skeleton, by being full 20 times as thick, and but 
three times as long. It is an Englijh Yard and half 
a Foot long, and hath a Foot in Circumference, where 
it is thinned. Dr. Grew obferves, that by the Fi- 
gure it appears to have belonged to the Leg, and not 
to the Thigh, and he conjectures the whole Elephant 
to have been about five Yards high. 
Before I difmifs this SubjeCt, I mud beg Leave to 
mention a few more. Gejfner j: takes Notice, that he 
was prefented by a Toli/h Nobleman with a Tooth 
four times as large as that, which he figured under 
the Title of Hippopotamus in his Book de Aquatili- 
bus. It was found under Ground, as they were dig- 
ging for the Foundation of a Houfe, together with 
a very large Horn, as they called it, which many 
took to be an Unicorn’s Horn, but wrongly, as he, 
Gejfner , thought, becaufe of its being too thick and 
* Cb. vii. <). 78. fag. 78. t Mufxum. Reg. Soc, fag. 32. 
Figuris Lapidum. fag. 157. 
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