PREFACE 9 



The worth of . f . 



Spanish dollar English guinea 



In New Hampshire, Con- 



necticut, Rhode Island, 



and Virginia ......... 6 shillings I Pd. 8 sh. 



New York and North 



Carolina ............. 8 shillings I Pd. 17 sh. 



New Jersey, Pensylvania, 



Maryland, and Dela- 



ware ................ 7 sh. 6 pence i Pd. 15 sh. 



South Carolina ........ I Pd. 12 sh. 6 pence 7 Pd. 7 sh. 



Georgia ................ 5 shillings I Pd. 3 sh. 



But since the war, in the last two states, the basis has 

 mostly been sterling, the dollar at 4 shillings 6 pence, 

 and the guinea at 21 shillings. 



Accordingly a pound current is in Virginia &c. = 

 $ l /4 Span, dollars ; in New York &c. 2 l /2 Span, dol- 

 lars ; in Pensylvania &c. = 2% Span, dollars. 



I should mention also that of the so-called carnivo- 

 rous elephants, (p. 266 if. of my Travels), beautiful 

 representations of which are given in Buffon's Epoques 

 de la Nature, remains have been found outside America, 

 in other parts of the old world. In Germany a molar 

 tooth, kept in the cabinet at Erlangen, has been found 

 very similar to that coming from the Ohio; and there 

 lies before me a drawing of bones and teeth which were 

 discovered in the year 1762 at Gruebberg between Un- 

 tergrafensee and the Gruebmiihle, near Reichenberg in 

 Bavaria, the figure showing molar teeth altogether like 

 the American, with partly sharp, partly worn apo- 

 physes. 



And it is worthy of remark that the complaints made 



