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remains of animals, vegetables or fliells belonging to the northern 

 feas, but thofe only that belong to the neighbouring feas. Thus 

 in Siberia, to return to the already frequently mentioned phosno- 

 menon, we find the remains of elephants and rhinoceri accom- 

 panied by marine vegetables, and alfo with fhells that do not belong 

 to the northern ocean, i Epoques 418. They muft therefore have 

 been conveyed thither by the more diflant Indian fea overflowing 

 thefe parts ; as the elephants very naturally crowded together on. 

 the approach of the inundation, they were conveyed in flocks, and 

 hence their bones are found in accumulated heaps, as fliould be 

 expedted *. But in Greenland, which is ftill more diflant, only 

 the remains of whales are found on the mountains. Crantz Hiftoire 

 Generale des Voy. vol xix. 105. So in the fouthern latitudes, 

 as at Talcaguana in Chili, latitude 36° S. the fliells found on the 

 tops of the hills are thofe of the neighbouring fea. 2 Ulloa Voy. 

 p. 197. So thofe found on the hills between Suez and Cairo are 

 the fame as thofe now found in the Red Sea. Shaw's Voyages, 

 vol. ii. 



jdly, The traces of a violent fliock or impreflion from the 

 fouth are as yet perceptible in many countries. This Mr. Patrin 

 attefts as to the mountains of Dauria on the fouth eaft limits of 

 Siberia ; he tells us that the more eaftern extremities of the moun- 

 tains appear to be broken off" by the impetuoflty of an ancient ocean 



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* The elephantine remains found in Ruffia were conveyecf thither from PerCa. 



