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6E0L0GICAI CHANBES OF THE EARTH- 
by Grew merely as the tooth of a terrestrial — . ^ 
the remains of this animal, found in the neighbour 
Canterbury, were supposed to have belonged to tlio 
potamus. 
In Hartzberg, in the principality of GnrbeD'ji'jif/' 
Quedlimburg, Darmstadt, the borders of tb® 
Mentz, Strasbourg, the neighbourhood of Cologu®* |j‘i 
__ t I*— . ^ _ A* r? - 1 • l^‘* . «T 
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phalia, numerous parts of France, and in several 
Great Britain, the remains of the rhinoceros 
found. In Siberia these remains have been )/’ 
considerable quantities. Pallas, whose research^ 
been particularly directed to this part of the | 
the astonishing discovery of a complete rhinoc®' 
covered by its skin, and buried in the sand on th® 
of the river Wiluji. 
FOSSIL REMAINS OP THE SIBERIAN 
of'*' 
It has been demonstrated by Cuvier, that this 
of a ditferent species from the mastodon, or 
mammoth. Its bones have been found in tire 'b'' 
near London, Northampton, Gloucester, HarW^^’ijr' 
wich, in Salisbury plain, and in other places in 
they also occur in the north 
o-f Ireland ; and 
Iceland, llussia, Poland, Germany, P’rance, 
■' e bones and teeth have been ;tl'« 
Its teeth have also been found in Pj 
America, and abundantly in Asiatic 
iiat Ifom the Don to the l'cliutskoir.ess> J\, 
abundance 
South 
says, I hi 
•scarcely a river 
. , pi 
that does nut afford the iuu'U'‘ . 
mamnioth, and that they are fretiuently 
(illuvial soil, containing marine productions Ih®* ^ if | 
are seldom complete ; but the following n't®'’^*’|L ^ I 
rative will show that, in one instance, tire auinu’l ,| 
found in an entire state. ■cv4'' 
In the year lyoy, a Tungusian fisherman ’’jl 
strange shapeless mass projecting from an 
the mouth, ol a river in the north of Siberia, ih® 
which he did nut understand, and which w'as 
the bank as to be beyond his reach. He next f jiF, 
served the same object, which was then rather ^ 
gaged .from among tire ice; but was still una'’ ® 
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