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not a legendary bison that has increased with 

 years of story- telling ? And so the co-exist- 

 ence of man and mastodon must rest as a case 

 of not proven, although there is a strong prob- 

 ability that the two did live together in the 

 dim ages of the past, and some day the evi- 

 dence may come to hght that will prove it be- 

 yond a peradventure. If scientific men are 

 charged with obstinacy and unwarranted in- 

 credulity in declining to accept the testimony 

 so far presented, it must be remembered that 

 the evidence as to the existence of the sea 

 serpent is far stronger, since it rests on the tes- 

 timony of eye-witnesses, and yet the creature 

 himself has never been seen by a trained ob- 

 server, nor has any specimen, not a scale, a 

 tooth, or a bone, ever made its way into any 

 museum. 



REFERENCES 



There are at least eleven mounted skeletons of the 

 Mastodon in the United States, and the writer trusts he 

 may he pardoned for mentioning only those which are 

 most accessible. These are in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York; the State Museum, Al- 



