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st and he has given us Tome curious fads concern* 
“ ing this quedion ; but M. Daubenton 
“ appears to us to be the fird who has put the mat* 
“ ter beyond doubt, by accurate meafures, by exadt 
<c comparifons, and by reafons founded upon the 
“ great knowledge which he has acquired in the 
“ icience of comparative anatomy.” 
From the firft time that I learned this part of na- 
tural knowledge, it appeared to me to be very curious 
and interefting ; inafmuch as it feemed to concur 
with many other phenomena, in proving, that in 
former times fome aftonifhing change mud have 
happened to this terraqueous globe ; that the higheft 
mountains, in mod countries now known, mud have 
lain for many ages in the bottom of the fea ; and 
that this earth mud have been fo changed with re- 
fpedt to climates, that countries, which are now in- 
t«nfely cold, mud have been formerly inhabited by 
animals which are now confined to the warm cli- 
mates. 
Some time in the lad fpring, having been informed 
that a confiderable quantity of elephants teeth had 
been brought to the Tower, from America ; and be- 
ing defirous of procuring fome information concern- 
ing them, I waited upon Mr. Bodington, to know 
the particulars, and to beg leave to examine them. 
He obligingly gave me a verbal account of their 
having been brought from the banks of the Ohio ; 
and on the following day fent me one tufk, and 
one grinder, as fpecimens for my examination. The 
tude, indeed, feemed fo like that of an elephant, that 
there appeared no room for doubt. I (hewed it to 
my brother, and he thought fo too: but, being par- 
ticularly converfant with comparative anatomy, at the 
j fird 
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