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large bones and teeth, which are (the teeth, at least) 

 very different from those of the African elephant. 

 These exuviae were found at the depth of eight or nine 

 feet below the surface of the earth ; " and within a space 

 not exceeding ten paces." 



I have had an opportunity of examining some of 

 these teeth. It is easy to perceive, that they are the 

 exuviae of two different animals : the one is the Ohio- 

 Mammoth, your Elephas Americanus ; the other is 

 much more nearly allied to the existing elephant of 

 Asia : perhaps, they are the teeth of your Elephas Mam- 

 monteus. 



As these teeth, found so near to those of Stono, are es- 

 sentially different horn those of the Elephas Africanus ; 

 as similar teeth are found in many other parts of North- 

 America, and often in the very same places ; I think it 

 is more than probable, that the teeth mentioned by Mr. 

 Catesby were either those of the Ohio-elephant, or 

 those of the elephant, which seems to have had great al- 

 liances with the existing elephant of Asia : most proba- 

 bly, they belonged to the same species which has left 

 such abundant memorials of its existence in the north of 

 Asia : the Elephas Mammonteus, or primigenius. 



But are there no other reasons for believing, that 



teeth very nearly allied to, if not precisely the same 



with, those of the existing elephant of Africa have been 



din North- America ? Baron Humboldt did, cer- 



(y, inform me, that he had found grinders like 



those of the African elephant in the country of Ana- 



And in one of the numbers of the Annales de 



