58 Obsewations on the Great Hurricane of 1112, 



" The most extraordinary effect of this hurricane 

 was the protluction of a second crop of leaves and 

 fruit of all the mulberry-trees in this country : a cir- 

 cumstance into which I very carefully enquired, but 

 could not learn, from the oldest and most curious ob- 

 servers, that this had ever happened before. This 

 tardy tree budded, foliated, blossomed, and bore 

 ripe fruit, with the amazing rapidity of only four 

 weeks time, immediately after the gust, and no other 

 trees were thus affected.'* 



VII. Observations on the Mafnmoth, or American Ele- 

 phant. In a Letter to the FjDiToii.,fro7n the Right 

 Reverend Bishop iVI a d i s o n . 



ONE of those facts has lately occurred, 

 which the naturalist knows best how to appreciate, 

 and which I, therefore, take a pleasure in communi- 

 cating to you. It is now no longer a question, whether 

 the Mammoth was a herbivorous or carnivorous ani- 

 mal. Human industry has revealed a secret, which 

 the bosom of the earth had, in vain, attempted to con- 

 ceal. In digging a well, near a Salt-Lick, in Wythe- 

 county, Virginia, after penetrating about five feet and 

 a half from the surface, the labourers struck upon 

 the stomach of a mammoth. The contents were in a 

 state of perfect preservation, consisting of half masti- 

 cated reeds, twigs, and grass, or leaves. There 

 could be no deception ; the substances were desig- 

 nated by obvious characters, which could not be mis- 



