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firft fight he told me that the grinder was certainly 
not an elephant’s. From the form of the knobs on 
the body of the grinder, and from the difpofition of 
the enamel, which makes a cruft on the outfide only 
of the tooth, as in a human grinder, he was con- 
vinced that the animal was either carnivorous, or of 
a mixed kind. This made me think that the tufk 
itfelf was not a real elephant’s tooth : for Mr. 
Bodington had told me, that there were many 
grinders, as well as tufks, and that they were all fimilar 
to thole fpecimens which he had fent to me. And 
fome time after, when I went to the Tower, and 
examined the whole collection which had been fent 
over from the Ohio, I faw that the grinders were all 
of the fame kind. I examined two elephants jaws 
in my brother’s collection : 1 examined the tufks and 
grinders of the Queen’s two elephants : and 1 ex- 
amined a great number of African elephants teeth at 
a warehoule. 
From all thefe obfervations I was convinced that the 
grinder tooth, brought from the Ohio, was not that 
of an elephant; but of fome carnivorous animal, 
larger than an ordinary elephant : and 1 could not 
doubt that the tufk belonged to the lame animal. 
The only difference that I could obferve between it 
and a real elephant’s tufk was, that it was more 
twifted, or had more of the fpiral curve, than any 
of the elephants teeth which I had feeru 
Some time after this, Dr. Franklin received a large 
box of the fame fort of bones from the Ohio, by the 
way of Philadelphia. He informed me of this, and 
told me likewife that another large box of thofe 
bones was fent to the Earl of Shelburne, one of his 
Majefty’s 
