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America seems to be the quarter where 

 the remains in question most abound. On the 

 Ohio, and in many parts further north, tusks, 

 grinders, and skeletons ol' unparalleled magni- 

 tude, are found in vast numbers, some lying; 

 on the surface of the earth, and some a little 

 below it. Mr. Stanley, taken prisoner by the 

 Indians near the mouth of the Tenessee River, 

 relates that being transferred thro' several tribes, 

 he was at length carried over the mountains, 

 west of the Missouri, to a river which runs 

 westwardly; that these bones abounded there; 

 and that the natives described to him an animal, 

 to which they belonged, as still existing in the 

 northern parts of their country. Bones of the 

 same kind have been found in salines opened 

 on the North Holston, a branch of the Tenessee 

 about the latitude 36 north. Instances are 

 mentioned of like animal remains found in the 

 more southern climates of both hemispheres ; 

 but Mr. Jefferson observes, that they are either 

 so loosely mentioned as to leave a doubt of the 

 fact; so inaccurately described as not to autho- 

 rize the classing them with the great northern 

 bones; or so rare as to found a suspicion, that 

 they have been carried thither as curiosities from 

 more northern regions. " So that on the whole 



