^66 Mr, White's OhfervatiGm on a 



Observations on a Thigh Bone of uncommon 

 Length. By C. White, EJq^. F. R. S. feV. 

 Bjiad November lo, 1784. 



T N different parts of Siberia, as well in the 

 ^ mountains as the valleys j likewife in RufTia, 

 Gernnany, Peru, the Brazils, and North America, 

 on the banks of the Ohio near the river 

 Mimme, feven hundred miles from the fea- 

 coaft", and five or fix feet beneath the furface of 

 the earth, there have frequently been found, at va- 

 rious times, fofiil tufics and bones of a very large 

 fize, fomewhat refembling thofe of the elephant. 

 In temperate climates, the tuflis are foftened, and 

 converted into foilil ivory j but in countries 

 frequently frozen they are generally found very 

 frefii. Many of them may be feen in the Impe- 

 rial Cabinet at Peterfburgh, in the Bricilh, Dr. 

 Hunter's, and Sir Afhton Lever's Mufeums, 

 and in that of the Royal Society. Accord- 

 ing to tradition, thefe were reported to be the 

 tuft:s and bones of the Mammouthy an animal, 

 which, if ever it exifted, is not now, that we 

 know, any longer an inhabitant of any part of 

 this globe. A defcription of the Mammouth 



is 



