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V. An Account cf a Pair of very extraordinary 
large Horns found in Wapping fome Tears 
fince, rfith a probable Account^ whence they 
came, and to what Animal they belonged. 
By Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet, Prefident 
of the Royal Society, and of the College of 
Phyficians^ 
M Any Years fince» Mr. Doyly ^ ('who was a great 
learcher after Curiofities, and gave Name to 
a fort of Stuffs worn in Summer,) found a Pair of 
extraordinary large and ftrangely fhaped Horns in 
a Cellar, or Warehoufe, at Wapping^ where they 
had fuffered much by Worms and otherwife, being 
eaten pretty deep on their Surfaces, in tnany Places. 
They had lain there fo long, that when he bought 
them, no body could inform him, either of the Coun- 
try whence they came, or when, or how they had been 
lodged there. They refembled in feveral things the' 
Horns of Goats, which made many People think, 
that they had belonged to an Animal of that kind, 
in all likelihood as large as the Moufe-Dear in A- 
werica is of its kind. The Royal Society being in- 
formed of this matter, Mr- Hunt, their Operator at 
that time, made adefign of them, on which Dr. Hook 
read a Lec5fure at a Meeting of the Society at Gre- 
(ham-College, This Leeffure and the Defgn, are, I 
think, loft ; but I remember, that he fufpeefted them 
to be the Horns of the Sukotyro, as the Chinefe call 
