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his fathers, in whose traditions it was stated more to resemble 

 a hog than any other beast." The stomach of a mastodon was 

 found in the county of Wythe, in Virginia, and the contents 

 consisted of plants known in Virginia, on which the animal had 

 fed. 



Mr. Collinson had a grinder of the mastodon, from the Great 

 Lick, on the Ohio, which weighed near four pounds, with as 

 fine an enamel on it as if just taken out of the head of the 

 beast. — Phil Trans. Ivii. 468. 



• In Guatemala some gigantic skeletons and a molar tooth 

 were found, near a stockade where a chief with a Mogul name 

 (Calel) opposed Alvarado, and who sent the presents customary 

 with Moguls, gold and a mantle or dress. 



Grotius says that the Peruvians were a Chinese colony; 

 that the Spaniards found, at the entry of the Pacific ocean, 

 after coming through the straits of Magellan, the ivrecks of 

 Chinese vessels. Captain Shaler, our intelligent Consul- 

 General at Algiers, is well assured that a Chinese junk was 

 wrecked on the north-west coast of America ; some of the 

 money of that country was found on board. — {Yates and 

 Moulton, p. 68.) 



Timur Khan, grandson of Kublai, (and the presumed legi' 

 tlmate brother of Mango Capac,) succeeded to the empire in 

 1294. His Chinese name was Ching-tsong. He had been 

 viceroy of Eastern Bangalla, Ava, Yunan, and neighbouring 

 regions. His residence was at Tali, in lat. 25°, on the con- 

 fines of Yunan and Ava. From A.D. 1268 to 130], civil 

 war was perpetual against Siberia, which was invaded by 

 300,000 troops at one time, and numerous armies were main- 

 tained there for thirty years. — (Wars and Sports, ch. v.) 

 When Marco Polo was in China, Kublai had 5000 elephants, 

 and after 1272 always employed those animals in his wars. 



Many bones of elephants, says Pallas, are found in several 

 places on the banks of the Biroutch. A great number, and 

 the skull of an elephant, were found in the bank opposite the 

 house of the seigneur of Nagadkina, ten miles from Tchirikovo, 

 a village remarkable for its fine breed of horses. A tusk was 

 found in the most perfect state of preservation except the 

 point. They say that near this village there are two ancient 



