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What Tsbrand Ides :j: mentioneth of the Mam- 
math’s Teeth and Bones, deferves to be looked at 5 as 
alfo the Journal of Laure?is Langes Journey to Chi - 
na *, and the Remarks of Capt. John Bernard 
Muller f. 
Thofe above-mentioned, as far as I know, are the 
chiefeft Authors which have treated of the Mam-' 
moth’s Teeth and Bones, as a very remarkable and par- 
ticular Curiofity of Siberia . 
It would not be worth while, nor our Pains, to 
detain you with the Refutation of fome partly mere- 
ly fabulous Opinions, quoted by the faid Authors, 
about the Origin of thofe Teeth and Bones : There- 
fore I defign only to pick out of the Teftimonies of 
Matters of Fad of the forefaid Authors, the following 
Points to myPurpofe: 
1. That thofe Teeth and Bones are found in Si - 
beria , chiefly in the Northern Parts, near the Rivers 
Jenizea , Trugau , Mongam-Sea 7 Lena , &c. towards 
the icy Sea; at the Time when the Ice has broken, 
the Banks of thofe Rivers, fo that part of the adjacent 
Mountains do fall down ; and that they are found in 
fuch Quantity as is fufficient for Trade, and to make 
a Monopoly 'for the Czar ||. 
2. That fometimes Skeletons of this kind are found 
very near complete. 
3. That thofe Teeth and Bones are not found al- 
ways of the fame Size, but fometimes very large ; as 
£ In his Travels from Mofco to China . * f To be found in the 
Vrefent State Ruilia. (] Vid. The Vrefent State of Rufland. 
'Dentes 
