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'^^ The bones of this paw were similar to those 

 of a bear's foot. Where I found these bones, I 

 found large quantities of bear's bones at the same 

 time, and had an opportunity of comparing and 

 arranging the bones together, and the similarity 

 was striking in every particular except the size. 



" The vertebrse of the back and neck when ar- 

 rayed in order with the os sacrum and os coccygis, 

 measured nearly fifty feet, allowing for cartilages; 

 though I am not confident the bones all belonged 

 to one animal. I had some thiarh bones of the 

 incognita of a monstrous size when compared 

 with my other bones, which I much regret I nei- 

 ther weighed nor measured. 



" These bones were all obtained at Big-bone- 

 lick, in the state of Kentucky, three miles from 

 the Ohio river. This Lick was formerly a salt- 

 marsh ; we generally dug through several layers 

 of small bones in a stiff blue clay, such as deer, 

 elk, bufFaloe, and bear's bones, in great numbers, 

 many of them much broken ; below which was a 

 stratum of gravel and salt water, in which we 

 found the larger bones, some nearly eleven feet 

 deep in the ground, though others were found on 

 the surface. These bones were never regularly 

 connected together, but lay scattered in various 

 directions." 



It will be readily perceived that in the above 

 account of the bones of the incognita, the Doctor 

 has confounded tlie vertebrse and claws of several 



