four miles to the south-east of the Ohio, and were conveyed to England. 



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These bones were discovered five or six feet below the surface; and, 

 from the quantity of bones, it was concluded, that there could not be less 

 than thirty skeletons of this animal. Mr. Collinson, in a letter to Buf- 

 fon, also refers these remains to some large, unknown animal, with the 

 tusks of the elephant and grinders of the hippopotamus. Buffon, Tomexm. 

 Dr. W. Hunter, by whom these remains were examined, and who be- 

 lieved that they belonged to some carnivorous animal, had the satisfac- 

 tion of comparing the half of a lower jaw of this animal with the jaw of 

 an elephant, and found so great a difference, as convinced him " that 

 the supposed American elephant was an animal of another species, a 

 pseud-elephant, or animal incognitum." Presuming that the American 

 bones were not elephantine, the Doctor concluded that the Siberian were 

 of the same kind. P kilos. Tram. VoL LV.III. The celebrated Camper, 

 at first, concluded that this animal approached nearer to the elephant 

 than to the hippopotamus; and that it, in all probability, had a trunk, 

 and therefore was not to be considered as carnivorous. But contemplat- 

 ing afterwards some fragments of the skull of this animal, in a wrong 

 point of view, he changed his opinion ; and concluded, that this animal 

 must have had a pointed muzzle and no tusks; that it did not resemble 

 the elephant; and that he was unable to determine any thing with re- 

 spect to its real nature. Dr. Hunter, in the paper above referred to, 

 published in 1768, observes, that in the British Museum, and in private 

 collections, he met with grinders of the incognitum that had been found 

 in the Brazils and Lima, as well as in different parts of Europe. M. Buf- 

 fon, in 1778, figured one of these teeth, which he had received from the 

 Count de Vergennes, and which had been found in Little Tartary; also 

 another, which had been brought by the Abbe Chappe from Siberia. 

 Epoqucs de la Nature, PL i. n. tt in. Pallas has also given the figure of 

 a tooth of this animal, from the Oural Mountains. 



Many bones of this animal having been found, in 1799, in the State 

 of New York, in the vicinity of Newburgh, which is situated on the Hud- 

 son, or North River, Mr. C. W. Peale, of Philadelphia, purchased these, 



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