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LXXXIII. An Account of federal Bones of 
an Elephant found at Leyfdown in the 
If and of Sheppey. In two Letters from Mr. 
]acob, Surgeon at Feverfham, to James 
Far fons, M. D. F. R. S. dated May 24, 
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Read June ij.npHREE or four years ago I fent 
17 j[ you the acetabulum of an elephant, 
which was difcover’d flicking in the clay, which was 
partly wafh’d away from the cliff, at a place call’d 
Leyfdown, in the ifle of Sheppey, a full mile eaft- 
ward of the cliffs of Minfler. This, with other parts, 
as one of the fpinal vertebrae, a thigh-bone four feet 
long, and numberlefs other fragments too rotten to be 
then taken up intire, I faw ; all which lay below 
high-water mark : And as the place, and fome ad- 
jacent land, foon after, became my property by a 
purchafe I made j I went, attended by workmen, in 
fearch of more, and found an elephant’s tufk j and, as 
it lay intire to appearance, took its dimenfions which 
were, in length, eight feet ; and in circumference, in 
the middle, twelve inches : But it fell all to pieces, 
when we endeavoured to raife it. I found, alfo, part 
of a fcapula, its finus almoft intire, and three inches 
diameter. I have fince found fome pieces of grind- 
ers, and, by care, hope for more ; and have now a 
larger one, from another part of this illand. The 
pyrites, however, abounds fo much in the clay wherein 
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