( j8o.) 
And I am well perfuaded, by the bed Conftru< 3 ion I can 
make of thofe imperfed and obfcure Accounts, we have 
in Evert Isbrand Iddes curious Travels trom Mufcovy to 
China over Land ; Chap, the 6th, ( which he confetles he 
only gathered from the barbarous 0 (Hacks Inhabitants of 
that Country) concerning the vail Teeth and Bones and 
Limbs of as he calls them, frequently found 
(and diligently fought after to make profit of them) in 
the Hills, and Banks offeveral Rivers in Siberia, th eKeta, 
J?niz,e, Trugan , Montgamfea and Lena ; that they are no- 
thing elfe but the Remains and Skeletons of Elephants buried 
there, and accidentally difcovered by the Earth's open- 
ing, and falling down on the fudden Thaws, after fevere 
long Frofts. But of this, pleale to conlult the Author, 
whole Words are too prolix to be inferted here. 
But to bring this Matter flill nearer home to our felves, 
Mr. Cambden in his Britannia is of opinion, that thofe great 
monftrous Teeth and Bones, which he takes notice to have 
been at feveral times dug up in many parts of Great Bri- 
tain, mud have been the Remains of Elephants ; but then 
he thinks, they mull be of thole that Dion Cafftus the Hi- 
ftorian tells us, the Roman Emperor Claudius brought over, 
when he made bis Expedition into that Ijland. But that 
this truly is lo, I own is but Surmife as yet, and has not 
been fo fairly proved by him or any other, as that we 
can rely upon’t with fatisfadion. 
What Mr.lVilliamSomner the learned Antiquary has pu- 
blifhed in his Difcourfe of Chartham News is more remar- 
kable 5 (this is reprinted lately in the Philofophical Tranf- 
attions for July 1701. No. 171.) where he informs us> that 
in. the Year 1668 in the Village of Chartham near Canter- 
bury in England, digging within 1 z Rods of a River, they 
found a Parcel of fi range monflrous Bones, fome whole , fome 
broken, together with four Teeth perfect and found, each 
weighing fomething above half a Pound, and fome of them, al- 
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