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XXL A Letter from Mr. Henry Baker, 
F. R. S. to the Prefident, concerning an ex- 
traordinary large fofhl Tooth of an Ele- 
Jf#«</Marcii28.'Tr“iH E foflil Tooth I have now the 
I 745 « Honour to lay before you, was fent 
me lately, from Norwich , by Mr. William Arderon, 
It feems to be a Grinder belonging to the Left Under- 
Jaw of a very large Elephant, as its own Size and 
Weight may fhew : For the Circumference, mcafured 
by a String drawn round the Edge, is 3 Feet, want- 
ing 1 Inch; in Length it meafures 15 Inches; in 
Breadth, where wideft, 7 Inches, in Thicknefs above- 
3 ; and its Weight i; upwards of 11 Pounds. 
■ On one Side it is convex, and on the other con- 
cave, with 16 Ridges and Furrows running on each' 
Side tranfverfly, and correfponding with the fame 
Number of Eminencies on the grinding Edge, which 
appears furrowed like a Miiftone. On the Bottom of 
the Part that lay within the Gum are feveral Cavi- 
ties for the Infertion of the Nerves. The whole 
Tooth is almoft intirc, and feems very little, if at 
all, petrefred ; but, fnce its being expofed to 
the Air, feveral little Cracks appear. Other monftrous 
Bones were found with it, as 1 am informed ; and 
particularly Thigh bones, 6 Feet long, and as thick 
as the Thigh of a Man ; all which belonged probably 
to the fame Animal, and may be confidered as far- 
ther Proofs of the Creature’s enormous Size, 
SIR, 
Th 
