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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



475 



light the {i^ceihty of diftlnguifliing the different 



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condition of foflil bodies, united bj the mere 



been imported 



circumflance of contiguity, before we draw any 

 inference as to their having a common origin. 

 If the marine remains were in the fame condi- 

 tion with the bones ; if they were in no refped 

 mineralized ; then the conclufion, that both had 



by the fea, would have great 

 probability; but without that, their prefent union 

 mud be held as cafoal, and can give no iniight 

 into the origin of either. 



417. On the vyhole, therefore, no conclufion re- 

 mains, but that thefe bones have belonged to 

 fpecies of elephants, rhinoceros, &c. which in- 

 habited the very countries where their remains 

 are now buried, and which could endure the 



feverity of the Sib 



The rhin 



f the Wilui certainly lived on the confines 



of the I 



d was expofed to the fam 



cold while alive, by which, when dead, its body 

 has been fo long, and fo curioufly preferved. 

 Thefe animals may alfo have lived occafion- 



ally farther to th 

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on that lid 



the valleys 

 of mountains that 

 . Foffil bones are 



rarely found in thefe valleys, probably be- 

 caufe they have been waflied down from thence 

 into the plains. We mufl obferve, too, that 

 thofe animals may have migrated with the fea- 

 fons, and by that means avoided the rigorous 



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