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opinion, they could belong only to Elephants ; and 

 requests James to make inquiry of any of that nation, 

 at this treaty*, how far these skeletons lie from the 

 Ohio, with sundry other queries : to all which he 

 (James) received the following- answers, from two in- 

 telligent Shawanese-men, by an interpreter : 



" That the place where they lie is about three 

 miles from the Ohio, salt and moist, about the extent 

 of Lancaster- town, in the midst of a large savanna, 

 four days' journey below the lower Shawanese-town, 

 on the east side of the River : that there appear to be 

 the remains of five entire skeletons, with their heads 

 all pointing towards each other, and near together, 

 supposed to have fallen at the same time. When 

 they were asked to describe their several parts, they 

 began with the heads, of which two were larger than 

 the rest. One of these, they said, a man could but 

 just grasp in both his arms ; with a long nose, and 

 the mouth on the under side. They next mentioned 

 the shoulder-blade, which, when set at end, reached 

 to their shoulders, and they were both tall men. 

 What they called the cup (or socket) of that bone, 

 was equal in size to a large bowl. The thigh-bone, 

 when broke asunder, would admit of a little boy's 

 creeping into it. They were asked, if they had seen 

 long bones they called horns : they answered, they 

 had ; and, by the distance from themselves to the door, 

 they showed them to be ten or twelve feet long ; and 

 added, that by the bones, they judged the creature, 



* The Indian treaty at Lancaster, in 1762. 



