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I did not wish to break the train of my 

 own arguments, by introducing the opinions of 

 those, whom 1 know to be adverse to mine. 

 A love of truth, however, and a desire to o-Ive 

 all the information within my means, lead me 

 to notice those opinions. 



Bishop Maddison, a gentleman of research 

 and distinguished information, affirms, that 

 the incognitum with the studded grinders is an 

 animal of the herbivorous order. Permit me 

 to give his own reasonings. 



" Among rude nations, ignorance and cre- 

 dulity have eagerly embraced and perpetuated 

 extravagant tales, respecting the mammoth. 

 The Siberians assert, that it lives underground; 

 and the North-west Indians have hurled against 

 it the thunder-bolts of the Great Spirit, so as 

 to make the monster spring over the Wabash, 

 the Illinois, and the Great Lake, where he is 

 now confined I In the scientific world, two 

 dissimilar principles, scepticism, and the bold 

 spirit of conjecture and system, have produced 

 mistakes, perhaps no less extraordinary. At 

 first, the remains alluded to were, by some na- 

 turalists, attributed to tjie elephant, whilst 

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