ELEP H A N To 
the Romans. From die time of Solomon ? Ivory has 
been ufed in ornamental works; it was one of the 
imports of his navy of Thtirjhijh? whole lading was 
gold and Slyer* ivory* apes* and peacocks*. 
The teeth of this animal is often found in afoffil 
ftate; fome years ago two great grinding teeth* and 
part of the iiifk of an elephant were given me by 
fome miners* who difeovered them at the depth of 
42 yards iff a lead-mine in Flintshire ; one of the 
ftrata above them was lime-ftone* about $ yards 
thick; the teeth were found in a bed of gravel in 
the fame mine ; the grinders were almoft as perfect 
as if juft taken from the animal f the tulle much 
decayed* foft* and exfoliating. 
The grinders and tulles of the Mammouth 9 fo 
often found foil'd in Siberia > muft be referred to 
this animal* as is evident from the account and 
figures of thofe in the Ph. Tr. alridg. ix. 8y. by 
Mr. Brejnius f. The Molares differ not in the left 
from thofe recent; but the tulle has a curvature fail* 
greater than thofe of any elephant I have feen; whe¬ 
ther this was accidental or preternatural* cannot be 
determined from a ftngle fpccimen ; Strabkn&erg 
lays they are fome what more crooked J than ele¬ 
phants teeth commonly are % and others relate that 
a pair weighed 400 lb. which exceeds the weight of 
the largeft recent ttifks: there are alfo found with 
them foflil grinders of 241b. weight; but fmee* in 
* Kings l. 10 . 
t Who has given very accurate figures of the entire head, the 
molares, the tufk and the thigh bone. 
t Hj/l. Ruffia, 402. Alfo Beli*s *fr&txtb, IL 165. Le Bruns Tra~ 
wis. x„ 63, 
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