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named Logan, friendly to the whites, and who remained among the whites 
after the Indians were driven away.” 
Under date of March 30, 1876, Professor Loomis wrote again to Professor 
Hamlin respecting the same matter, from which I quote the following: 
«TI sought an interview with Dr. Beck. ... . The Colonel Kelly referred 
to was a soldier and officer in the Revolutionary War, and was a leading 
man in some fight in New Jersey during the war. A small monument is in 
our cemetery to his memory, from which I take the following inscription : 
‘Col. John Kelly died Feb. 18th, 1832, aged 88 years & 7 days’ He owned 
a farm about five miles from Lewisburg, in Kelly township, which was 
named from him. About 1790 or 1800 (such is the indefiniteness) Colonel 
Kelly was out with his gun on the McClister farm (which joined that of 
Colonel Kelly), and just at evening saw and shot a buffalo. His dog was 
young, and at so late an hour he did not allow it to pursue. The next morn- 
ing he went to hunt his game, but did not find it. Nearly a week later word 
was brought him that it had been found, dead, some mile or two away. He 
found the information correct, but the animal had been considerably torn and 
eaten by wolves. He regarded the animal as a stray one, and had never 
heard of any in the valley ata later day. Dr. Beck had the account from 
Colonel Kelly about three months before his death. . . . . The Colonel also 
told him that the valley was wooded originally with large but scattered 
trees, so that the grass grew abundantly and furnished good pasturage for 
the buffalo, and that the animal had been from this circumstance very 
abundant in'the valley. The Colonel repeated the statement of a friendly 
Indian, Logan (probably ot the native chief of that name), who said that 
the buffalo had been very abundant. He, Dr. Beck, had the same statement 
from Michael Grove, also one of the first settlers in the valley... - . I was 
more particular than I should ordinarily have been, because this is about the 
last stage when reliable tradition can be had.” 
This, of course, affords satisfactory proof of the former existence of the 
buffalo in the region about Lewisburg, which forms the most easterly point 
to which the buffalo has been positively traced.* 
* In respect to the supposed remains of Bison americanus from the Carlisle bone-caves, Professor Baird, 
in a recent letter to me (dated May 13, 1876), expressed some doubt as to their being referable to that 
species. A re-examination of them he thinks would be necessary in order to determine “whether they 
are of the bison, and if so of which species.” During my recent visit to Washington, quite careful search 
was made for the specimens, but unfortunately without finding them, though they are doubtless still stored 
somerhere in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and will some day be found. 
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