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biting the earth, thofe to which the foffil re« 

 mains may with the greateft probability be re- 

 ferred ; and, fecondly, to find out the caufe 



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^xift in fuch quantities, in 

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and at any rate muft be firft fought for. 



On the authority of fo eminent a naturalift a; 

 Pallas, the bones from Siberia may fafely be re- 

 ferred to the elephant, the rhinoceros, and buf 

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quainted. With refped to the bones of North 

 America, the queftion is more doubtful, for^they 

 have this particular circumftance attending them, 

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■which might be fuppofed to belong to the ele- 

 phant, grinders are always found of aftrudlure and 

 form entirely different from the grinders of that a- 

 nimal *. Some naturalifts, particularly M. P'Au- 

 BENTON, referred thefe grinders to the hippopota- 

 mus : but Dr W. Hunter appears to have proved, 



very fatisfadlory manner, that they 



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