180 ELEPHANTS IN IRELAND. HEAP OF BONES NEAR STUTGARD. 
With respect to Ireland, there is a description in the Philosophical 
Transactions for 1715, by Dr. Molineux, accompanied by engravings, 
of some molar teeth of elephant found at Maghery, in the county of 
Cavan ; and the occurrence of the remains of the same large and ex¬ 
tinct species of elk, with that found in the diluvial clay and gravel of 
Walton in Essex, and other parts of England, is notorious and almost 
universal in the marl that lies at the bottom of the Irish peat bogs*. 
For foreign localities of the fossil elephant, I have already referred 
to Cuvier's account of places in which they have been found all over 
Europe. Blumenbach, in his Archaeologia Telluris, part i. p. 12, 
1803, states, that within his knowledge more than 200 elephants, and 
30 rhinoceroses, have been found in Germany. 
At Seilberg, near Canstadt, on the Necker, in 1816, they dis¬ 
covered, in 24 hours, 21 teeth, or fragments of teeth of elephant 
mixed with a great number of bones; and soon after, in continuing 
their diggings, fell on a group of 13 tusks and some molar teeth of 
elephants, heaped close upon each other, as if they had been packed 
artificially. These were all carefully removed, in their natural position, 
with the clay in which they were embedded, by order of the King, to 
the Cabinet at Stutgard. The largest of the tusks, though it had 
lost its point and root, was eight feet long, and one foot in diameter. 
They are in good preservation, and in general curved to the amount 
of three quarters of a circle, and bending outwards. 
At the village of Thiede, on the plain, four miles south-west of 
the diluvium is very argillaceous: a portion of this tusk is now preserved in a Museum 
at Bridlington. 
* D r - Molineux says that in the space of twenty years, thirty individuals of the Irish 
elk have been found in the county of Meath, and three of these in the same acre of land. 
