REMARKS ON THE MAMOTH. |39 



was much larger. By digging near the lakes of Canada, where 



the animal is called by the favages, the Father of Oxen ; near 



the rivers which fall into the Ohio ; towards the rivers Miami, 



Mufkingum, in the flate of Kentucky, and of Tennelfee, &c. 



&c. but principally near the fait fprings, pieces ofikeletons 



and tutks have been found, of an aftonifhing length and 



weight. 



We have feen a femur and a tibia, which, when united, Enormous mag- 



muft have been five feet and a half high ; another femur, which mtu J e by ad " 



p ; meaiuremenU 



was alone five feet long, and thirty-fix inches in circumference 



in its middle or cylindrical part ; ivory tulks refembling thofe 



of an elephant, which were near feven feet long, and one foot 



fix or eight inches in circumference at the bafe. It was not 



till the year 1 800 that a complete fkeleton of thefe foffil bones 



could be procured. Two phyficians of Philadelphia, Doctors 



Barton and Wifiar, had in their pofleffion the lower jaw almofi: 



entire, with two teeth on either fide, in particular,, that of the 



former has five and three points, all quite double; but no one 



had the entire head. 



The ftate of New York (in the environs of the beautiful Where moft 

 river Hudfon) has of late years been the theatre of difcoveries P lent i fuI '/ 

 of foffil bones, a greater quantity of them having been found 

 there than any where elk. In 1800, by digging in the low 

 and marfhy places of the counties of Orange and Ulfter, at 

 three, four, and five feet deep, parts, which had never been 

 before difcovered, were found. Some bones, ten feet deep in 

 the earth, were as found and entire as thofe which had been 

 met with nearer the furface. Some, however, were found 

 broken, particularly thofe of the head. 



In another place, eight miles from the city of New York, an Particular h€it 

 upper jaw was found perforated to receive a tufk like that of 

 an elephant; the connection of the tufks was by gomphofis; 

 the tulks were evidently of ivory ; the openings for the noftrils 

 were eight inches in diameter; and notwithstanding that the 

 bones of the feet afford reafon to conclude that the animal had 

 claws, it is fcarcely poffible to avoid thinking, from the ftruc- Conjectures as 

 ture of the head, that it was a fpecies of elephant. Some hair to die fpecks of 

 has even been found, three inches in length and of a dark amma " 

 colour, which is faid to have belonged to this monftrous qua- 

 druped. Doctor Graham, a Senator, in a letter to Do&or Mit- 

 chill, Reprefentative in Congrefs, and ProfeiTor of chemifiry 



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