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beauty and grace of the fairer sex, as well as the generosity, 

 urbanity, and good fellowship of the men. Not in the 

 least liking the lines of rails, their method or management, 

 by which I had come out, with the kind advice of the 

 Messrs Campbell, having expressed my servant and dogs 

 right through to New York, there to await my arrival, I 

 resolved on going the Canadian route, and thus to return 

 by the giants of the giant land the Falls of Niagara. 



Before entirely taking leave of the State of Missouri, and 

 in proof of the wondrous secrets yet to be revealed through 

 the research of man in the womb of the past world, it may 

 be interesting to make a brief quotation from the paper on 

 mastodon remains found in the State of Missouri, and pre 

 sented to the Academy of Science in St Louis. 



Dr. Albert 0.. Kock stated, as published in " The 

 Transactions of the Society in 1857," that " some twenty 

 years before, he commenced making extensive researches 

 and excavations for mastodon remains in the State of Mis 

 souri; " and the result of those researches were " some 

 very striking evidences of the existence of man on the 

 continent of America, in the age of the living mastodon. ; 

 L ; . In 1859 he discovered and disinterred, in lat. 38 

 20' N., in the bottom of the Bourbeuse river, where there 

 was a spring, the remains of the above-named animal. 

 The greater portion of these bones had been more or less 

 burned by fire. The fire had extended but a few feet be 

 yond the space occupied by the animal before its destruc-: 

 tion ; and there was more than sufficient evidence on the 

 spot that the fire had not been accidental, but, on the conr 

 trary, that it had been kindled by human agency, and, 

 according to all appearance, with the design of killing 

 the huge creature, which had been found mired in the mud, 

 and in an entirely helpless condition. 



