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VIII. si Letter from John Phil. Breyne,i\£ 2>. 
F. R> S. to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart • 
Fref R . j 1 . with Observations , rW a De- 
fcription of fome Mammoth 5 Bones dug 
up in Siberia, proving them to have be - 
OUR very learned and inftructive Accounts of 
Elephants Teeth and Bones found under 
Ground, 1 faw with great Pleafure in the Rhilofo- 
phical Tranfaffiivns, N° 403. and 404. In the fame 
Year, to wit 1728. I was bulled about the very fame 
Matter, efpecially to prove, that the extraordinary 
large Teeth and Bones found under Ground, and 
digged up in feveral Places of Siberia , by the Name 
of Mammoth's , or Mammut's y Teeth and Bones, 
I. True Bones and Teeth of fome large Animals 
once living ; and, 
II. That thofe Animals were Elephants , by the 
Analogy of the Teeth and Bones, with the known 
ones of Elephants . 
III. That they were brought and left there by the 
univerfal Deluge. I made likevvife feveral ufeful In- 
ferences about this Matter. 
At the fame time there flourished in our City a So- 
ciety of fome learned and ingenious Gentlemen, who 
met once a Week in a certain Place : In one of thofe 
Meetings in the Month of March, I had the Honour 
SIR 
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