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the submission of Cantii, Atrebates, Irenobates, and Regni, in which latter denomination were included the people of Sussex.

What time the huge unwieldy elephant Auxiliary reluctant, hither led—" In the year 1740, some workmen digging in the park at Burton in Sussex, discovered, nine feet below the surface, the teeth and bones of an elephant; two of the former were seven feet eight inches in length. There were besides these, tusks, one of which broke in removing it, a grinder not at all decayed, and a part of the jaw-bone, with bones of the knee and thigh, and several others.  Some of them remained very lately at Burton House, the seat of John Biddulph, Esq.  Others were in possession of the Rev. Dr.