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the winters, it fecms incomprehenfible how they 
came, there. 
I conclude, many of this learned Society are not 
unacquainted with the foflil elephants teeth annually 
found in Siberia, lodged in the banks of the great 
river Oby, and other rivers of that country. 
On the fyftern of the deluge, it has been con- 
jectured, that, as the extenlive kingdom of Siberia 
lies behind the native country of the elephants in 
Alia, from Weft to Eaft, and to the North, by the 
violent adtion of the winds and waves, at the time 
of the deluge, thefe great floating bodies, the car- 
cafes of drowned elephants, were driven to the 
Northward, and, at the fubfiding of the waters, depo- 
sited where they are now found. But what fyftern, 
or hypothecs, can, with any degree of probability, 
account for thefe remains of elephants being found 
in America, where thole creatures are not known 
ever to have exifted, is fubmitted to this learned 
Nov. 4, 
1767. 
p. S. The Bifliop of Carlifle prefented to the 
Royal Society, on the 27th of February, 1766, 
fome foftil teeth and bones from Peru, which have 
fome analogy with the before-mentioned, not fo re- 
cent, but much more petrified ; the pronged teeth 
are like to agate. 
A Lift 
