UEPHANT. 9* 
ell other refpefls, thofe grinders refemble thofe of 
the living elephants •, and one being found lodged in 
the fkeleton of [the fame head with the tufts, we 
cannot deny our afient to the opinion of thofe who 
think them to have been once the parts of the ani¬ 
mal we have juft adcribed. 
Thefe are found lodged in the fandy banks of the 
Siberian rivers; fometimes entire fteletons are found: 
the tufts are made ufe of as ivory, formed into 
combs, and ufed to irilay cabinets. The Tartars 
have many wild notions about the Mammouth , fuch 
as its being a fubterraneous animal, &c. &c. Lin- 
naus * fays it is the fkeleton of the Walrus flung on 
Ihore, 
An animal only known in a foflil ftate, and that 63. Ambri* 
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but partially from the teeth, fome of the jaw¬ 
bones, the thigh bones and vertebra, found with 
many others five or fix feet beneath the furface, on 
the banks of the Ohio, not remote from the river 
Miame , feven hundred miles from the fea coaft. 
Some of the tufts near feven feet long, ] one foot 
nine inches in circumference at the bafe, and one 
foot near the point ^ the cavity at the root or bafe 
nineteen inches deep : the tufts of the true ele¬ 
phant have fometimes a very flight lateral bend, 
thefe have a larger twift or fpiral curve towards the 
fmaller end *, but the great and fpecific difference 
eonfifts in the fliape of the molares or grinders, 
which are made like thofe of a carnivorous animal, 
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