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In perufingDr. Hooks pofthu metis Works, 
in his Difeourfe on Earthquakes, I there find, that 
Dr. Thomas Brown of this City prefented the Royal 
Society with a petrify'd Bone, found at Winterton , 
a little Country Town on this Coaft, in the Year 
16665 but am far from being of ( d ) 'Dr. Browns 
Opinion, to take them all for Bones of Sea Animals, 
much lefs of the Whale Kind, which are found here. 
Amongfl: the many Strata , which I took notice 
of in thefe Cliffs, there is one of a dark-grey Colour, 
which fweats out a yellowfulphureous Matter : I take 
it to be that fort of Earth from which Vitriol is 
made ; but this is of fuch a cauftic Nature, that, it 
but a fmall Piece of it be held to the Tongue, in a 
Moment it caufeth as fharp and excruciating a Pain, 
as if a red hot Iron had been holden to it. 
(d) c Whoever will take the Pleafure to read Mr. Blair’s Defcrip- 
c tion of the Skeleton of the Elephant, now at Dundee in Scotland, 
c infer ted in Phil. Tranf. N*. 326, will find thefe Teeth before- 
c mentioned to be the real Teeth of Elephants, whatever Dr. Browns 
c may be : And though I have never feen that Bone he prefented to 
< the Society , yet, I imagine it to be a Bone from the fame kind of 
< Animal.’ 
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