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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



the fame kind. Foffil bones, particularly grind- 

 ers and tufks of elephants, have been found 

 in other places of Germany, in Poland, France, 



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Italy, Britain, Ireland, and even Iceland 

 Two countries, however, afford them in greater 

 abundance by far than any other part of the 

 known world ; namely, the plains of Siberia in 

 the old continent, and the flat grounds on the 

 banks of the Ohio in the new f . 



407. When the bones in Siberia were firfl dif- 

 covered, they were fuppofed to belong to an ani- 

 mal that lived under ground, to which they gave 

 the name of the mammouth ; and the credit be- 



llowed on this abfurd fid 



proof of the 



ftrong defire which all men feel of reconciling ex- 

 traordinary appearances with the regular courfe 



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Much fkill, however 



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ftory was not required to difcover that many of 

 the bones in queilion refembled thofe of the ele- 

 phant, particularly the grinders and the tuflcs of 



that 



Others refembled the bones of the 



rhinoceros , and a head of that kind, having the 



hide 



* A grinder of an elephant found in Iceland, is de- 

 fcrlbed by Bartholinus, Adtor. Hafnlens. vol. i. p. 83. 



f The foffil bones on the Ohio are defcribed in two 

 papers by Mr P. ColUnfon, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ivii. p. 464, 

 and 468. 



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