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which- are to be found petrified on the nor- 

 thern mountains, are of fuch kinds as at 

 prefent are not to be got in the fea, in the 

 fame latitude, and they are not fifhed on 

 the more, till you come to South Carolina. 

 Mr. Bartram from hence took an occaiion 

 to defend Dr. Thomas Burnet's opinion, that 

 the earth before the deluge was in a differ- 

 ent pofition towards the fun. He likewife 

 afked whether the great bones which are 

 fome times found in the ground in Siberia, 

 and which are fuppofed to be elephant's 

 bones and tufks, did not confirm this opi- 

 nion. For at prefent thofe animals cannot 

 live in fuch cold countries; but if according 

 to Dr. Bumet t the fun once formed different 

 zones about our earth, from thofe it now 

 makes, the elephant may eafily be fuppoled 

 to have lived in Siberia.* Hovvever.it 



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* The bones and tufks of Elephants are not only found 

 in RuJJia, but alfo in the canton of Bafel in SvciJJerland, in 

 the dominions of the Marquis of Bareith in franconia, and 

 more inftances are found in the Protogaa of the cele- 

 brated Leibnitz. Lately near the river Ohio have been dis- 

 covered, a great number of fkeletons of Elephants with their 

 tufks, and very remarkable grinders ftill flicking in their 

 jaw bones were fent to the Britijb Mufeum \ the late Dr. 

 Littleton Bifhop of Carlijle, alfo lodged fome teeth flicking in 

 their jawbones in the Mufeum of the Royal Society, which 

 were brought from Peru. The rivers Chatunga and Indi- 

 ghirka'm Siberia, are remarkable for affording on their banks 

 great quantities of bones and tufks of Elephants, which 



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