, ^OSSIi REMAllI* or tLBPHANTI. 
pair, found ten feet under ground, in the 
*•1 Uja Clave, was presented to Charles II. and placed 
\QyJ^?^n-gallery, Hamptou-court 5 but was afterwards 
At K ‘''to the guard-room of the same palace. 
J'iles r ^’y'''ard, near Ballyshannon ; at Turvy, eight 
I^ublin; and at Portumery, near the nvei 
Sf ’ tlie county of Galway j similar horns have 
In the common-hall of the ]&ishop of Ar- 
^lyi.^ouse, in Dublin, was a forehead, with two amaz- 
beams of a pair of this kind of horns, ^hich, 
® tnagnitude of the beams, must have much 
iti size those of which the dimensions aie given 
Jitty Molyneux states, that in the last twenty years, 
of these horns had been dug up by accident in 
‘fy i the observations, also, of several other per- 
1 ove the great freouency with which these remains 
.^ 3 rirf^ found in Ireland. • , • 
opinions have been entertained respecting this 
. 'Hal '^puiions nave oeen emenaiueu 
^tj- ®Ocl itj existing prototype. This, however, does 
, ’y, to have been yet discovered ; and these remains 
‘‘®*'ofore, be regarded as having belonged to an 
‘oow 
extinct. 
k, *'OSSU. remains of elkphants. 
temains of elephants have been found in Italy ; 
*te ij^ough 3 veiy consldcrabio number ot elephants 
tL^“l Africa into that country, yet the vast 
which these remains have been found, and 
\v ^'^“bability that tlie Italians, particularly the Ro- 
bave known sufficient of the value of ivory, 
h'Ui, 1 P*’®vented them from committing tlie tusks to the 
si , **5 *bfi belief, that by far the greater number of 
V which have been dug up, have been depo- 
.'“'f by the hands of man, but by the changes 
Mr '®hi 1 ^orface of this globe has undergone, at 
K/'tlv periods. The circumstances, indeed, under 
*ipf of ,?y of these have been found, afford indubitable 
fact. 
V® 'Where it well known that living elephants 
less frequent, at least in times of which 
either in Italy or in Greece, thar 
