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has declared on a like investigation that they 

 are precisely the same. 



" Between two such authorities I will suppose 

 this circumstance as equivocal. But, first, the 

 skeleton of the mammoth bespeaks an animal 

 of five or six times the cubic volume of the ele- 

 phant. 2dly. The grinders are five times as 

 large, are square, and the grinding surface 

 studded with four or five rows of blunt points; 

 whereas those of the elephant are broad and 

 thin, and their grinding surface flat. Sdly, 

 I have never heard of an instance, and suppose 

 there has been none, of the grinder of an ele- 

 phant having been found in America. Athli/. 

 From the known temperature and constitution 

 of the elephant, he could never have existed 

 in those regions, where the remains of the 

 mammoth have been found. The elephant is 

 a native only of the torrid zone and its vicini- 

 ties : if, with the assistance of warm apartments 

 and warm clothing, he has been preserved in 

 life in the temperate climates in Europe, it has 

 only been for a short portion of what would 

 have been his natural period ; and no instance 

 of his multiplication in them have ever been 

 known. But no bones of the mammoth, as I 



