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Shore, are entirely black and broken, and can never 
he ref ore d to their former Condition, but thofe 
which are found in good Cafe , are as good as Ivory, 
and are accordingly tranfported to allParts of Muf- 
covy. The above-mentioned Perfon alfo told me, 
That he once found two Teeth in one Head, that 
weighed above iz Ruffian Pounds, which amounts to 
400 German Pounds ; fo that thefe Animals muji be 
of Necejfity very large, though a great many lejfer 
Teeth are found. By all that 1 could gather from 
the Heathens , there is no Perfon ever faw one of 
thefe Beafts alive, or can give any Account of its 
Shape . Thus far E. Tsbrant Ides . What he ob- 
ferves of thofe Teeth that are black and broken, may 
ferve as a Comment to the following Railage of 
Pliny * : Theophrajius autor ef, & ebur foffle can - 
dido & nigro colore inveniri, & ojfa e terra nafci , 
invenirique lapides ojfeos. Lawrence Lang, in the 
Journal of his Travels to China, whither he went 
with Difpatches from His C&arifh Majefty in iyif, 
takes Notice of thefe Bones f, as being found about 
the River Jenifei, and towards Alangafea , along the 
Banks, and in the Hollows occafioned by the Fall of 
the Earth. He calls them Maman-bones, and informs 
us, that fome of the Inhabitants are of Opinion, that 
they are no real Bones, Teeth, &c. but a Sort of 
Cornu FoJfile , that grows in the Earth, and that others 
will have them to be the Bones of the Behemoth menti- 
oned in the 40th Chapter of Job , the Defcription 
whereof they pretend fits the Nature of the Beaft, 
whofe Bones and Teeth they are imagined to be, thofe 
fuppofed Words, in particular, that he is caught with 
* Lib, xxxvi. ’C. 18. f Prefent State of RuJJia, Vo], II. pag. 14. 
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