308 ‘Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 
mur, brought from Casan by the astronomer Delille, and 
described i Daubenton *. 
M. Pallas gives a long fist of bones, tusks, ana elephants* 
and Rattocehaes teeth sent from the government of Casan to 
Petersburgh in 1776 and 1779, and which also come from 
the banks of the Swiaga. 
The French journals recently contained an account of @ 
complete skeleton found in the territory of sincliows } in the 
government of Casan. ; 
The beds of the Ob are full of them. ‘The people of Sa- 
moieda bring great quantities of them continually for sale at 
Beresova: they collect them in the immense naked plains 
which extend to the Frozen Sea, and which are also filled 
with shells. There is an immense heap of bones at Kut- 
schewaskoi, upon the Ob. 
The Irtisch, one of the principal branches of the Ob, is 
perhaps the river which has afforded the most; as well as its 
tributary rivers, the Tobol, the Toura, and the Isette. The 
two latter, which descend from the eastern range of the 
Oural mountains, often afford these bones mixed with ma- 
rine productions. 
Strahlenberg speaks of an entire head, of four feet and a 
half long, brought from Tumen upon the Toura. The Tom, 
another tributary of the Ob, has furnished plenty of them, 
as well as the Keta. 
An entire skeleton has been found upon the banks of the 
former, betwecu Tomsk and Kafnetsko, by Messerschmidt. 
Fossil bones have been found upon the Alei, and even at 
the foot of these mountains so rich in mines, from which 
several branches of the Ob derive their source. M. Pallas 
-asserts that there was a grinder taken from a mine in the 
famous mountain of the Serpents, and found along with 
some antient marine productions. 
The beds of the Jenissca has furnished them at all times 
near Krasnojark, whence M. Pallas received a grinder. They 
are to be found even so far north as the 70th degree of north 
latitude, below Selakino, that is to say, very near the Frozen 
* Mem, de l’Acad. for 1762. 
- Sea. 
