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when alive, .must have been the size of a small house, 

 pointing, from the windows, to a stable in sight. 



" James then asked, if the place where they lay, 

 was surrounded with mountains, so as to admit of a 

 probability of its ever having been a lake. They an- 

 swered, the place was salt and wettish, and, by having 

 been much trod and licked, was something lower 

 than the adjacent land, w^hich, however, w r as so level, 

 to a prodigious extent, that the lick, as they called 

 it, could never have been covered with water, and 

 that there were many roads, through this extent of 

 land, larger, and more beaten by buffaloes, and other 

 creatures, that had made them, to come to it, than 

 any they saw in this part of the country*. 



" In answer to being questioned, if they had seen 

 such bones in any other place, they said, they had 

 seen many such scattered here and there, in that large 

 tract of land, some upon the surface, and some partly 

 buried, but all much more destroyed by time, than 

 those they had described, and not any whole skele- 

 tons. 



" Upon being asked, if they had ever heard, from 

 their red-men, when these five were first observed, 

 or if they, or their fathers, had ever seen any such 

 large creatures living, as these bones were supposed 

 to have been a part of, they answered, they had never 

 heard them spoke of, other than as in the condition 



* Pennsylvania, &c. 



