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feems th^lall which we have hitherto men- 

 tioned, may have been the efFe^ of differ- 

 ent caufes, To thofe belong the univerfal 

 ^elugej theincreafeof land which is mere- 



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bfcihg f>itfertf(Sd thefe by the grtst froft, and in the Ihoft 

 fumttief of a few weeks, the rain being rare, thefe tuiks are 

 commonly fo frelh that they are employed in HuJ/ja, as com- 

 fttbft ivoi-yj oh account of the great quantity brought froiA 

 thefe places to Rnjia j fome of them were eight feet long, and 

 of three hundred pounds weight. There have been found 

 grinders of nine inches diametef. Biit tht Jmericnn grindew 

 t)f Elephants from near the Ohio are vet more remarkable* 

 on account of their being provided with crowns on their 

 tops, fuch as are only found in the carnivorous animals, and 

 fach is feed on hard bohes or nut«. Whilft on the contrary. 

 Elephants at prefent feeding on graffes and foft vegeubles 

 fave no fuch crowns at the tops of their grinders. Z%, it 

 ii tr\it, iiikkes a diftinaion between th.t :Aftatk or Indian 

 Elephants, and the J^rican ones ; and remarks the latter to 

 be inferior to the former in fize and vigour ; but whether 

 the teeth ih thefe lanimals are fo much different from thofe 

 bt the dther variety, has never been atteaded to. This cir- 

 cumftance of the difference in the folTil grinders of Ele- 

 phants, from thofe in the living ones, and the place where 

 thefe Skeletons were found in, viz. Siberia, Germany and 

 iihttricay where at prefent no Ehqjhants are to be met with, 

 tJpetis a wide field to x:onje«5Vores in regard to the way, by 

 ^hich thefe animals were carried to thofe ^ots. The flood 

 4tt the deluge perhaps ha6 carrifed them thitlrer : nor is it 

 tontrary to reafon, hiilory or revelation, to believe, t^efe 

 fteliptbns to be the remaindets of amimals, which lived on 

 thefurface tf this globe^ anterior to the Mofaic creatitm, 

 Whidi -may be eonfjdered only as a new modification of the 

 creatures living on this globe, adapted to its prefent ftate, 

 <tmder which it will iiemain till circumftances will make a new 

 -chahge neceffary, and then our globe will by a new creation 

 ^ffevolutJon appear ihore adapted to itsitate, and be docfc- 

 ffcd twth a fet of animah more Suitable to that ftate. Eveiy 



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