of American Elephants. 173 



by a delude, or by any other violent convulsion of nature. 

 And from this fact, would it not seem somewhat proba- 

 ble, that the country, in which the bones so greatly 

 abound, has undergone no very convulsive change, since 

 the era (doubtless a remote one), when the American 

 elephants, of which I am speaking, ceased to exist, in 



the country of the Osage- Indians? But it is 



time to put an end to this long, and I fear too uninte- 

 resting, Postscript. I am confident it will be less accept- 

 able to you than the fine Tooth, which accompanies it. 



Your's, &c, 



Benjamin Smith Barton. 



Philadelphia, 1806. 



To Mr. Cuvier. 



XI. Obsemations on American Locusts. Communicat- 

 ed in a letter to the Editor bij Dr. Calvin 

 Jones, of Raleigh, in North- Carolina. 



EARLY in the month of May, 1803, a species 

 of Locusts made their appearance in the middle and wes- 

 tern parts of this State ; and, I believe, also in the States 

 adjacent. In door-yards and fields, which had been 

 cleared within a few years, they were seen to rise up 

 out of the earth, in great numbers, and the ground was 

 every where filled with innumerable perforations, by 

 which they had ascended. These holes sometimes pe- 

 netrated to a great depth. I have been informed, that, 

 "in sinking a well, they were traced twenty feet deep. 



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