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not a legendary bison that has increased with 
years of story-telling? And so the co-exist- 
ence of man and mastodon must rest as a case 
of not proven, although there is a strong prob- 
ability that the two did live together in the 
dim ages of the past, and some day the evi- 
dence may come to light that will prove it be- 
yond a peradventure. If scientific men are 
charged with obstinacy and unwarranted in- 
credulity in declining to accept the testimony 
_ so far presented, it must be remembered that 
_the evidence as to the existence of the sea 
serpent is far stronger, since it rests on the tes- 
timony of eye-witnesses, and yet the creature 
himself has never been seen by a trained ob- 
server, nor has any specimen, not a scale, a 
tooth, or a bone, ever made its way into any 
museum. 
REFERENCES 
, There are at least eleven mounted skeletons of the 
_ Mastodon in the United States, and the writer trusts he 
may be pardoned for mentioning only those which are 
_ most accessible. These are in the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York; the State Museum, Al- 
