HEAP OF BONES NEAR BRUNSWICK, AT THIEDE. 181 
the town of Brunswick, a similar discovery was made in 1816, of a 
congeries of tusks, teeth, and bones, piled together in a heap of 10 
feet square, and embedded in diluvial loam that covers some gypsum 
quarries in the new red sandstone. In this small heap, (see Plate 
XXIV.) Mr. Berger, of Brunswick, found 11 tusks of elephant, one 
of them 11 feet long, another 14 feet 8 inches long, and 12 § inches 
in diameter, and both curved into a perfect semicircle; 30 molar 
teeth, and many large bones of elephant, some of which were five feet 
long, and one of them, according to Mr. Bieling, six feet eight inches. 
Mixed with these were the bones and teeth of rhinoceros, horse, ox, 
and stag; they all lay mixed confusedly together: none of them were 
rolled, or much broken ; and the teeth for the most part separate and 
without the jaws: there were also some horns of stag. I have seen 
the hole from which they were taken: it remained entire in 1822, 
and no further search had been made in the loam surrounding it. I 
saw also many of the specimens in the collection of Mr. Bieling at 
Brunswick, who has published a short description, with an engraving 
of them, as they lay in the quarry. It is very difficult to account for 
this partial accumulation of various teeth and bones: they were most 
probably drifted together by eddies in the diluvian waters ; but can¬ 
not have been rolled far, as they have rarely lost any thing of their 
projecting points and angles. 
A third spot in which they occur in unusual abundance is near 
Florence, in the valley of the Arno, above the gorge of Incisa. From 
this gorge, the valley widens upwards to Arezzo, a distance of 25 
miles, whilst the hills become gradually more And more contracted 
