MEMOIRS 



OF 



MAMMOTH, 



AND OTHER 



KXTRAORDINARY AND STUPENDOUS 



BONES. 



MEMOIR I. 



¥ VENTURE to invite the public attention 

 -*■ to a subject, which has for several years 

 excited considerable curiosity, but no profound 

 or solid investigation. In accompanying me 

 through this arduous duty, I trust you will 

 not expect from me a rhetoric to admire, or an 

 eloquence to applaud ; these are endowments 

 which the naturalist has neither leisure to cul- 

 tivate, nor to acquire : therefore I aim at no- 

 thing but simplicity and truth, and shall even 

 divest myself of such technical terms as may 

 perplex the reason of those who are not desi- 



