On Elephantine Bones. 35 



" the chewing place." Besides the animals already- 

 mentioned, horses are observed to be very fond of 

 drinking the water of some of the licks. But, which 

 is more remarkable, they are frequented by vast num- 

 bers of Wild Pigeons (Columba migratoria), and by a 

 species of Psittacus. Some species of Crotalus, or 

 Rattle Snake, are also often observed about these 

 places : but whether these reptiles drink tbe saline 

 water, I cannot assert. So far as I have yet learn- 

 ed, it is the herbivorous mammalia only that resort to 

 the licks, for the purpose of drinking the water, and 

 of licking and eating the earth. This circumstance 

 ought not to have been overlooked, in the view of the 

 question, whether the American Mammoth was an 

 herbivorous or a carnivorous animal. By myself, in- 

 deed, it was not overlooked. 



Note 2. Page 28. One David Ingram, an Eng- 

 lishman, assures us, that he saw Elephants in Ame- 

 rica ; and we might, perhaps, repose some degree of 

 confidence in his assertion, if he did not tell us, that 

 he likewise saw wild animals, twice the size of our 

 horses, formed like a grey-hound in their hinder 

 parts ; another quadruped, larger than the bear, with- 

 out head or neck, having its eyes and mouth in its 

 breast; and, lastly, the Devil, sometimes in the 

 likeness of a dog, at other times in that of a calf! 



