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tioned that the officer who had them, in order to get 

 these three pieces taken from the place of their dis- 

 covery two miles to a boat on the Ohio, gave one of 

 his soldiers the modest pour-boire of 1000 paper dol- 

 lars, worth 2400 Rhenish florins. Besides this molar- 

 tooth I have seen at Philadelphia, (in the collection of 

 Mr. du Sumitiere), others which had been found in 

 other parts of America ; these were all alike, and in 

 some of them the high continuations of the crown were 

 especially sharp, but in others more worn away. And 

 if by further discoveries of elephantine skeletons in 

 divers places in America it appears that this sort of 

 molar-tooth was general, the supposition will be 

 strengthened that there was at one time a distinct 

 American species of elephant. It has only recently 

 become known that these places on the Ohio are not 

 the only ones in North America where remains of this 

 sort are to be found. Teeth &c have come to light on 

 the Tar river in North Carolina, near York-town in 

 Pensylvania, and in Ulster county in New York. 

 Moreover, Catesby mentions an elephant's tusk that 

 was dug up in South Carolina ; Kalm, a whole skeleton 

 found in the country of the Illinois ; and others have 

 been discovered in South America. The greatest store 

 of fossil-bones from the Ohio is owned by Dr. Morgan 

 at Philadelphia. By reason of the impracticable dis- 

 tance it was formerly a hard matter to come by them, 

 scarcely possible except by a long way about, sending 

 them down to New Orleans and around by sea to 

 Philadelphia. But Kentucky now becoming more 

 settled, there are better hopes of soon securing an 

 exact knowledge of these remarkable accumulations of 

 bones. It would be superfluous to repeat the several 



