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have been almofi: univerfally deftroyed and burled in 
the Ruins of the World, as perhaps this Elephant may 
have been. Some few, however, would in all like- 
lihood efcape, either by fwimming to, or being left 
on, riling Lands ; where, if they met with proper 
Food, and an agreeable Climate, they would con- 
tinue and increafe, or otherwife would wander till 
they found fuch a Country, unlefs prevented by inter- 
poling Seas, or impalfable Rivers. 
All this indeed is barely Conje&ure : But the Bones 
andTeeth of Fifties, the Multitudes of Sea-Shells (fome 
whereof are petrefied, and others not), and the many 
Sea-Produdions found buried in the Earth in almofi: 
every Country, at vafi: Diftances from the Sea, and 
even in the midland Parts, are Demonftrations of 
the furpriling Alterations that mull have happened as 
to the Difpolition of Sea and Land. The Horns of 
the great Moufe-Deer, dug frequently out of the Bogs 
in Ireland , and fomctimes in England , the Bones 
and Teeth of Elephants found there, and this prefent 
Difcovery, together with fomo others of the like 
Kind that have been made in England, fez m to prove, 
that fuch Animals formerly inhabited thefe Countries, 
notwithftanding the Moufe-Deer is known at prefent 
only in America , and Elephants are not found ex- 
cept in Africa and Afia. 
Part of the Horn and Palm of a Deer, found in 
a Chalk-Pit, at a Village called Baber, 4 Miles Eaft 
of Norwich, at the Depth of 16 Feet, and almofi: 
converted into a chalky Subfiance, being of a Kind 
of which, I am told, we have none in this Ifland, I 
alfo lay before you, as another Proof to the fame 
Purpofe. 
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