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hide preferved upon it, was found in Siberia, and 

 is ftill in the imperial cabinet at Peterfburgh. 



Pallas has defcribed the folTil bones which he 

 found in the mufeum atPeteriburgh, on 

 ing appointed to the fuperintendence of 

 enumerates, not only bones that belong, in his 



his be- 

 it. and 



pin 



to the elephant and rh 



ceros. but 



and 



f a fize 



others that belong to a kind of buffalo, very dif 

 ferent from any now know 

 vaftly greater *. 

 ther very curious 



*. He has alfo defcribed, in ano- 

 ous memoir, the bones of the fame 



kind that he met with in his travels through the 



north-eaft parts of Afia. 



The foffil bones found 



the banks of the 



Ohio, refemble in many things thofe of Sibe 



? 



them they are contained in the foil 



ial earth, and 



th 



folid ft 



allu- 

 like 



them too they are no otherwife changed from 

 their natural ftate, than by being fometimes 



nightly calcined at the fur 



they are alfo of 



great fize, and in great numbers, being proba 

 bly the remains of feveral different fpecies. 



408. T 



mquiries 



cerning thefe bones 



have excited the curiofity of naturalifts ; firft, 

 difcover among the living tribes at prefent inh 



biting 



* Novi Comment. Petrop. torn. xiii. (1768) p. 436, 

 and tom, xvii. p. 576, Sec. 



