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sum have been brought to light. Among others, the 

 final intention of nature in the formation of the mar- 

 supiuniy or pouch, seems, in the Editor's opinion, to 

 be satisfactorily ascertained. 



3. Elephantine bones, of two distinct species, con- 

 tinue to be found in various parts of North- America. 

 A large grinder of the species improperly called 

 Mammoth, or Mammouth*, has lately been found, in 

 a field, at the distance of a few miles from Chambers- 

 burgh, in Pennsylvania, and is in the Editor's pos- 

 session. A tooth of the same species has been dis- 

 covered near the mouth of BufFaloe-creek, in the state 

 of New- York, nearly in latitude 43. Of the other 

 species, which appears to be nearly allied to (if, in- 

 deed, it be not the same with) the mammoth of Asiaf, 

 specimens have been discovered in Kentucky, in 

 South-Carolina, &c. This species (or rather its de- 

 fense, or tusk) has given its name, among some of 

 the Indian tribes, to a considerable branch of the ri- 

 ver Susquehanna. The Indians imagine, that this 

 defense is the horn of some large animal : some of 

 them say, the horn of a Snake. 



Editor. 



* The Elephas Americanus of Cuvier. 



t Elephas primigenius of Blnmenbach : Elephaa Mammontcus 

 of Cuvier. 



