[46] The notice is taken from _Les Peuples du Caucause, ou Voyage d'Abou-el-Cassim_, par M. C. D'Ohsson, p. 80, as follows:--"On trouve souvent dans la Boulgarie des os (fossils) d'une grandeur prodigieuse. J'ai vu une dent qui avait deux palmes de large sur quatre de long, et un crâne qui ressemblait à une hutte (Arabe). On y déterre des dents semblables aux défenses d'éléphants, blanche comme la neige et pesant jusqu' à deux cents menns. On ne sait pas à quel animal elles out appartenu, mais on les transporte dans le Khoragur (Kiva), où elles se vendent à grand prix. On en fait des peignes, des vases, et d'autres objets, comme on façonne l'ivoire; toute fois cette substance est plus dure que l'ivoire; jamais elle ne se brise." [47] _The World before the Deluge_, L. Figuier. London, 1865. [48] According to Woodward, over two thousand grinders were dredged up by the fishermen of Happisburgh in the space of thirteen years; and other localities in and about England are also noted.--Dana's _Manual of Geology_, p. 564. [49] Lyell, _Antiquity of Man_, p. 185, 2nd edit., 1863. [50] Fr. μάχαιρα "a sword," and ὀδούς "a tooth." [51] From μαστός "a teat," and ὀδούς "a tooth." [52] _Palæontology_, R. Owen. Edinburgh, 1860. [53] _The British Lion_, W. Boyd Dawkins, _Contemporary Review_, 1882. [54] The Moa was associated with other species also nearly or totally extinct: some belonging to the same genus, others to those of _Papteryx_, of _Nestor_, and of _Notornis_. One survivor of the latter was obtained by Mr. Gideon Mantell, and described by my father, Mr. John Gould, in 1850. I believe the Nestor is still, rarely, met with. Mr. Mantell is of opinion that the Moa and his congeners continued in existence long after the advent of the aboriginal Maori. Mr. Mantell discovered a gigantic fossil egg, presumably that of the Moa. [55] A. E. Nordenskjöld, _The Voyage of the 'Vega,'_ vol. i. p. 272, _et seq._ London, 1881. [56] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, Bk. x., chap. xvii., and Bk. xxx., chap. liii. [57] _The Romance of Natural History_, by P. H. Gosse, 2nd Series, London 1875. [58] _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, October 1878. [59] _Excelsior_, vol. iii. London, 1855. [60] _The Chinese Classics_, vol. iii. p. 1, by James Legge, B.D. [61] Inaugural Address by President, T. W. Kingsmill, North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1877. [62] Chabas, _Études sur l'Antiquité Historique, d'après les sources Égyptiennes_. [63] Subsequently to 1874. [64] O. F. von Mollendorf, _Journal_ of North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, No. 2, and T. W. Kingsmill, "The Border Lands of Geology and History," _Journal_ of North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1877. [65] "Intercourse of China with Eastern Turkestan and the adjacent country in the second century B.C.," T. W. Kingsmill, _Journal_ of North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, No. 14.