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been found, but in comparkively low situa- 

 tions ; this is to be expected of an animal, which 

 in a cold climate, would inhabit the valleys, 

 and in a warm one would seek the cold retreats 

 of the mountains. 



" Yours, kc. 



« R. P." 



Had the opportunities of Mr. Jefferson 

 been greater than it appears they were, or, in 

 other words, had his materials been less scanty, 

 he would not only have given a larger circle 

 for the range of this animal, but he would 

 have discerned the remains of a Second Incogni- 

 tum, whose stature was not, perhaps, inferior 

 to that of the other. These second remains 

 evince a member of the herbivorous order, and, 

 notwitiistanding the extraordinary size, I have 

 no hesitation in believing, tliat the animal was 

 of the genus of the elephant ; that he was the 

 mammoth of the Russians, the mehemodi of 

 the Arabians, and the behemoth of Job. 



I conceive the word behemoth signifies ihe 

 beast, by way of eminence, or the greatest 

 among beasts. 



