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of the Nexv Scribner's Magazine contains an article on 

 " American Elephant Myths,"" by Professor W. B. Scott, 

 bid he is tinder an erroneous impression regarding the 

 size of the mastodon, and photographs of the Maya 

 carvings shozo that their resemblance to elephants has been 

 eocaggerated in the xvood cuts. The story of the Lenape 

 Stone is told at length by H. C. Mercer in " The Lenape 

 Stone, or the Indian and the Mammoth.'''' 



Fig. 41. — The Lenape Stone, Reduced. 



