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manuscript entitled Biblia Americana, and 

 gives as a sample a note on the passage in Gen- 

 esis (VI. 4) in which we read that " there 

 were giants in the earth in those days." We 

 are told that this is confirmed by " the bones 

 and teeth of some large animal found lately in 

 Albany, in New England, which for some 

 reason he thinks to be human ; particularly a 

 tooth brought from the place where it was 

 found to New York in 1705, being a very large 

 grinder, weighing four pounds and three quar- 

 ters ; with a bone supposed to be a thigh-bone, 

 seventeen feet long," the total length of the 

 body being taken as seventy-five feet. Thus 

 bones of the mastodon, as well as those of the 

 mammoth, have done duty as those of giants. 

 And as the first mastodon remains recorded 

 from North America came from the region 

 west of the Hudson, so the first fairly com- 

 plete skeleton also came from that locality, 

 secured at a very considerable outlay of money 

 and a still more considerable expenditure of 

 labor by the exertions of C. W. Peale. This 

 specimen was described at some length by 

 Rembrandt Peale in a privately printed pam- 



