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dia to the plains of Siberia, and interred in the 

 mud of the Lena the animals that had fed on the 

 banks of the Barampooter or the Ganges? Were 

 all other objedions to fo extraordinary a fuppofi- 

 tion removed, the prefervation of the hide and 

 mufcles of a dead animal, and the adhefion of the 

 parts, while it was dragged for 2000 miles over 

 fome of the higheft and mofl rugged mountains in 

 the world, is too abfurd to be for a moment ad- 

 mitted. Or fliall we fuppofe that this carcafe has 

 been floated in by an inundation of the fea, from 

 fome tropical country now fwallowed up, and 

 of which the numerous iflands of the Indian 



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Archipelago are the remains ? The heat ( 



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arifing from it, would foon, independently of all 

 other accidents, have ftripped the bones of their 



covering. 



Indeed this injlantiajingula 



as in 



ery fenfe it may properly be called, feems 

 dated for the exprefs purpofe of excluding 



ry hypothecs b 



fro 



being employed 



explain the origin of foflil bones. It not only 

 eludes the two which have juil been mentioned, 

 but it excludes alfo that of BufFon, viz. that thefe 

 bones are the remains of anir 



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hen th 



hich lived 

 die regions enjoved a fi 



climate, and a temperature like that which 

 fouthern Afia now polTcfTes. From the preferva- 

 tion of the flelh and hide of this rhinoceros, it is 

 ain, that when the body was buried in the 



earth. 



