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leap ? — That this power of fpriuging to a great diftance was 

 requifite to the more effedtual concealment of his bulky- 

 volume while lying in wait for prey ? The Author of ex- 

 iftence is wife and juft in all his works. He never confers 

 an appetite without the power to gratify it. 



With the agility and ferocity of the tiger ; with a body 

 of unequalled magnitude and ftrength, it is poflible the 

 Mammoth may have been at once the terror of the foreft 

 and of man ! — And may not the human race have made 

 the extirpation of this terrific difturber a common caufe ? 



G, TURNER. 



Philadelphia^ July loth, i^^J- 



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