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HUTTONIAN THEORt. 



fore man had fubdued the earth, and freed it 

 from all domination but his own. 



406. The foffil bones of the fecond and third 

 clafs, but chiefly of the third, have now afford- 

 ed matter of conjedure and difcuffion for more 

 than a century. The fads with refped to them 

 are very numerous and interefting, but can be 



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confidered here only very generally. 



The remains of this kind, confiil of the bones 

 only of large animals, fo that they have gene- 

 rally been compared with thofe of the elephant, 

 the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, or other ani- 

 mals of great fize.- The bones of fmaller animals 

 have alfo been found, but much more rarely than 



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the other. It is ufually remarked, that the bones 

 thus difcovered in the earth are larger than thofe 

 of the (imilar living animals. 



Another general fad concerning thefe remains, 

 is, that they are found in all countries whatfo- 

 ever, but always in the loofe or travelled earth. 



and never in the genuine ft 



Since the year 



696 



hen the attention of the curious was 



called to this fubjed, by the fkeleton of an e- 

 lephant dug up in Thuringia, and defcribed 

 by Tentzelius *, there is ^hardly a country in 



Europe which has not afforded inftances 



of 

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