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4. The very respectable and ingenious Dr. Samuel 

 Brown, of Lexington, in Kentucky, informs the Edi- 

 tor, that there has recently been discovered, in one 

 of the nitrous caves which are so common in that 

 part of the United- States, the cranium of a large spe- 

 cies of Sus, or Hog, in a state of excellent preserva- 

 tion. By the zoologist, this cannot but be deemed 

 a fact of considerable consequence. For, with the 

 exception of the Mexican Hog, or Pecary (the Sus 

 Tajacu of Linnaeus), no species of the genus has been 

 discovered native within the limits of North- Ameri- 

 ca. — The Pecary itself is said to be a pretty common 

 animal in the rra/w-Missisippi part of the United- 

 States. 



5. The Editor is also informed, from another 

 source, that some cranial bones, supposed to be 

 those of a species of Rhinoceros, have been discover- 

 ed in Kentucky, in one of those niuriatic licks, or 

 marshes, which have so often furnished us with Ele- 

 phantine bones. Although this information requires 

 further confirmation, we may venture to predict, that 

 vestiges of at least one species of the genus Rhinoce- 

 ros will, at some future period, be discovered within 

 the limits of North-America. This conjecture is 

 founded upon the well-established fact, that North- 

 America has, in former times, possessed several of 

 those large species of mammalia, of which the ves- 

 tiges only now exist in Asia : and upon this fact, that 



