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habit about the head of the river of Seals *, probably not very re- 
mote from the South Sea. They are continued from thefe countries 
fouthward, as low as the provinces of Quivera and Cidola ; for Father 
Marco di Niga, and Gomara, plainly defcribe both kinds +. 
Some of the fkulls of this fpecies have been difcovered on the 
moffy plains near the mouth of the Ody in Sidiria. It is not faid 
how remote from the fea; if far, they probably in fome period might 
have been common to the north of 4a and of America; if near the 
fhore, it is poffible that the carcafes might have floated on the ice 
from America to the places where the remains might have been 
found}. Of this fpecies was the head, and fuch were the means of 
conveyance, from the coaft of Hud/on’s or Baffin’s, mentioned by Mr. 
Fabricius, and which he faw fo brought to Greenland ||; for it could 
not have been, as he conjectures, the head of the grunting Ox, an ani- 
mal found only in the very interior parts of northern 4fa. 
* Dobbs’s Hudfon’s Bay, 19, 25. + Purchas, iv.1561. v. 854. t Pallas, 
da nov. com, Petrop. xvii. 601, tab. xvii. || Faun. Groenl, 28. 
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