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The Accounts which I have hitherto given of thefe 
Maman - bones and Teeth, or at leaft their mo ft efien- 
tial Parts, are confirmed by a Letter of Bajilius Ta - 
tifchow, Director General of the Mines in Siberia , 
and Counfeilor of the Czar’s Metallick Council, wrote 
to the learned Ericus Benzelius , now Bifhop of Go- 
thenburg , , and printed in the jAEta Liter aria Suecire 
(m.dcc.xxv. Trimeftre Secundum , pag. 36.) wherein 
he mentions the following Pieces he had in his own 
PofTeflion : A large Horn, as he calls it, or Tooth, 
weighing 183 Pounds, which he had the Honour to 
prefent to his Czari/h Majefty, and is now kept in the 
Czar’s Colledion of Curiofities at Petersburg \ ano- 
ther large Horn, which he prefented to the Imperial 
Academy at Petersburg ; another flili larger than ei- 
ther of thefe two, which he caufed to be cut, and 
carved himfelf feveral Things of it, the Ivory being 
very good ; Part of the Skull, corrupted by having 
lain in the Ground, and fo large, that it feemed to him 
to be of the fame Size with the Skull of a great 
Elephant*, the Forehead in particular was very thick, 
and had an Excrefcence on each Side, where the Horns 
ufually flick to it, which Excrefcence however, as the 
Author obferves, was fo fmall, as to make him doubt- 
ful, whether or no there was ever any Horns fluck to 
them. The Cavity, wherein the Brain was lodged, 
was exceedingly fmall in Proportion to the Bulk of 
the Skull. He had found alfo a fpungy Bone of 
Foot and a Half in Length, and three Inches in 
Breadth, flicking to the Skull, and of a conical Fi- 
gure, whence he conjectured, that it ferved to fupport 
one of the Horns, which is obferved alfo in other Ani- 
mals that bear Horns : Laftly a Grinder, which had 
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