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What makes this come up almoft to Demonftra- 
tion, are the {a) Roots and Trunks of Trees, which 
are to be feen at low Water in feveral Places on this 
Coaft near Hasboroitgh and Walket . 
With refpeft to the Tooth I fent you fome time 
ago, I could trace nothing more out than what I 
have before informed you $ but, that Bones of Ani- 
mals are often found here is indifputably true j and 
I have now by me another (b) Tooth of an Elephant 
found betwixt Munjley and Harborough , which (c) I 
(hall forbear to deferibe to you, as I deiign it to wait 
upon you with fome other Folllls in a few Days. 
That the reft of the Bones of thefe Animals are 
not preferved fo commonly as the Teeth, I am in* 
formed is their prodigious Bulk and Weight; which 
are fo great, that the Country People thereabouts have 
never thought it worth their while to fave them from 
the Fury of the tempeftuous Waves, 
In 
(a) Dr. Hook, in his pofthumous Works fays, the like are to be 
feen on the Coafts of Cumberland and Rembrokejhire. 
(b) 'Richard Verftegan fays, nigh Bruxelles in Flanders were found 
the Bones of an Elephant, the Head of which he had feen. Verfi. 
p. 115. 
(c) c Only, that as this Tooth is much more decayed than that 
4 I before fent you, and hath feveral Pieces broken off it, yet it 
i weighs 10 Pounds and a Quarter; and would have weighed as much 
c or more than that which Mr. Tentzeltus deferibesin the Philofophical 
1 Tranfatiions , N° 234. found near Erfurt in German This, I think 
‘ he fays, was the biggeft ever found in Europe 
