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to read and communicate my Thoughts and Obferva- 
tions about this Subject; which, as I believe, they 
will not be difagreeable to you, I have tranflated into 
the Englijb Tongue, and joined to this prefent Letter. 
After that, viz. in the Year 1730, Dr. Mejfer - 
fchmidt returned to Dantzick, from his Travels thro' 
Siberia , and was pleafed to communicate to me feme 
curious Draughts of a Part of a Skeleton, to wit, of a 
very large Skull, ‘Dens exfertus & molar is , with the 
Os femoris , belonging to the Animal commonly 
called Mammoth , found in Siberia $ by which our 
Affertion, that the Teeth and Bones, called in Rtifland 
Mammoths Bones, are the true Teeth and Bones of 
Elephant s, is not only, as you wifhed in your firft Ac- 
count, put in a greater Light, but, if I am not mif- 
taken, demonftrated beyond all Doubt. 
Therefore I cannot forbear fending you thefe 
Draughts copied, for your Infpe&ion, with the Ex- 
plications and the Teftimony added. Being with true 
Refped, SIR , 
Vavtzick , Tour mpjl humble and mojl 
Sept. 28,1735. obliged Servant, 
J. P. Breyne. 
Obfervations on the Mammoth’s Bones 
and T ?eth found in Siberia : Read in a 
Meeting of fome leaned Gentlemen at 
Dantzick in the Tear 1728. by J. P. B. 
T HAT learned and curious Gentleman Dr. Da- 
niel Gottlieb Me(ferfchmidt , who was fent 
fome Years ago, by his late Czar ip Majefty, Deter the 
Great, 
