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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 fiflied on 

 the fhore, till you come to South Carolina, 

 Mr. Bartram from hence took an occafion 

 to defend Dr. T^homas 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 

 fometimes 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. Burnett the fun once formed different 

 zones about our earth, from thofe it now 

 makes, the elephant may eafily be fuppofed 

 to have lived in Siberia. * However it 

 1 4 feems 



* The bones and tufks of Elephants are not only found 

 in RuJJia, but alfo in the canton of Bafel in Swifferland, 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 dif- 

 covered, a great number of flceletons of Elephants with their 

 tuflcs, and very remarkable grinders ftill flicking in their 

 jaw bones were fent to t)\t Britijh 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 in Siberia, are remarkable for affording on their banks 

 great quantities of bones and tufks of Elephants, which 



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