Note 409 — Chapter XXVI
Reading edition
The editor of the edition of our author, printed in 1727, observes, that one four feet long, in the Cotton Library, had a silver hoop about the end, on which is engraved, Griphi unguis, divo Cuthberto Dunelmensi sacer. Another, about an ell long, is mentioned by Dr. Grew, in his History of the Rarities of the Royal Society, page 26; though the doctor there supposes it rather the horn of a rock-buck, or of the ibex mas. [409]