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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



lived there, it feems impoffibl 



No 



dation could have nroduced th 



ffe6l. nor could the b 



he 



Ik 



b 



brought in that way 



d together fo as to form corapl 



etons. 



415. O 



fatl 



d by the fame auth 



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feems calculated to remove all uncertainty. It 

 that of the carcafe of a rhinoceros, almoft entire^, 

 and covered with the hide, found in the earth in 

 the banks of the river Wilui, which falls into the 



Lena below TacutfK * 



S 



f the mufcl 



d tendons were adually adhering to the head 



"when Pallas received 

 dried in an oven, is 

 feum at Peteriburgh. 



ft 



Th 



The head, after being 

 preferved in the mu- 

 e prefervation of the 



ikin and mufcles of this natural mummy, as Pal 



no doubt brought about by it 



la 



was 



being buried in earth that was in a ftate of per 



petual 



g 



for th 



place is in the pa- 

 is never thawed 



rallel of 64*^, where the ground is never 

 but to a very fmall depth below the furface. 



But by what mean? can we account for th( 

 carcafe of a rhinoceros being buried in the earth 



on the confines of the pol 

 fcribe it to fome immenfe 1 



ir circle ? Shall we a- 



orrent, which, fweep- 

 ing acrofs the defarts of Tartary, and the moun- 

 tains of Altai, tranfported the produdions of In- 

 dia 



* Pallas, ubijuprui p. ^86, Aifo, Voyages de Pallas^ 

 torn. iv. p. i^i. 



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