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fordshire, Warwickshire, Salisbury, the Isle of Shepey, and indeed in 
several other parts of Great Britain, have different, remains of these 
animals been found. 
When we add to those places which have been already enumerated, 
Scandinavia, Ostrobothnia, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Siberia, Tunis, 
America, Hue huetoca, near Mexico ; and Ibarra, in the province of 
Quito, near Peru ; it will appear that there is hardly a part of the known 
world, whose subterranean productions are known to us, in which these 
animal remains have not been found. Ann. duMus. Tome vm. p. 1. 
Notwithstanding the frequency with which the fossil remains of 
elephants have been found, there are hardly any fossils of a known 
genus of animals, respecting which so many mistakes have been com- 
mitted. At no very remote period, not only the bones, but even the 
teeth, have been considered as the remains of a gigantic race of men : 
and Aldrovandus, Kundmann, and others, have mistaken the fossil 
teeth of elephants for those of other animals. Leibnitz, who wrote 
in 1/49, gives, in the twelfth plate of his Protogcea, the engraving of 
an elephant’s grinder, which he describes as Dens animalis marini ; 
and even M. de la Metherie, in his excellent work, published so lately 
as the year 1^97? describes a tooth found in Dauphigny, as belonging 
to an elephant of Africa, which Cuvier has since shown to be a tooth 
of the great tapir : and the same author considers the teeth from the 
Ohio, and those brought from Peru by Dombey, to be those of the 
African elephant*; whilst, as M. Cuvier observes, the fossil teeth of 
Dauphigny, of Peru, and of the Ohio, not only have no resemblance 
with each other, but are all totally different from those of the African 
elephant. So far, indeed, have mistakes respecting the remains of the 
elephant proceeded, that Kircher, Mercatus, and Aldrovandus, have 
described the fragment of elephants’ teeth as petrified hands ( ckirites ). 
Kundmann went so far as to insist, not only that one of these fragments 
* Theorie de la Terre, Tome v. p. 200 and 201. 
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