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THE MASTODON 205 
manuscript entitled Biblia Americana, and 
gives as a sample a note on the passage in Gen- 
esis (VI. 4) in which we read that “there 
were giants in the earth in those days.” We 
are told that this is confirmed by “ the bones 
and teeth of some large animal found lately in 
Albany, in New England, which for some 
reason he thinks to be human; particularly a 
tooth brought from the place where it was 
found to New York in 1705, being avery large 
grinder, weighing four pounds and three quar- 
ters; with a bone supposed to be a thigh-bone, 
seventeen feet long,” the total length of the 
body being taken as seventy-five feet. Thus 
bones of the mastodon, as well as those of the 
mammoth, have done duty as those of giants. 
And as the first mastodon remains recorded 
from North America came from the region 
west of the Hudson, so the first fairly com- 
plete skeleton also came from that locality, 
secured at a very considerable outlay of money 
and a still more considerable expenditure of 
labor by the exertions of C. W. Peale. This 
specimen was described at some length by 
Rembrandt Peale in a privately printed pam- 
