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from the other ; whereas, in the elephant, the grinders occupy one large 

 and uniform cavity, from which they are gradually protruded. 



The only instance of hair, Mr. Peale says, heing found with the re- 

 mains of this animal, occurred in a morass belonging to Mr. A. Golden. 

 The hair was coarse, long, and brown ; a large mass of it was found 

 together, but so rotten, that, after a few days exposure to the air, it fell 

 into a powder*. 



The country in which these remains are found is like an immense 

 plain, bounded on every side by immense mountains. On digging into 

 the morasses where these bones are found, the following strata are gene- 

 rally met with : one or two feet of peat, one or two feet of yellow marie, 

 with vegetable remains; about two feet of grey marie, like ashes; and, 

 finally, a bed of shell-marie. It is in the grey marie that the bones are chiefly 

 found. This marie is found to contain seventy-three parts in the hun- 

 dred of lime, and when dry will burn for a long time with a bright flame. 

 In the neighbourhood of these morasses are found an infinite number of 

 petrifactions of marine bodies, echinites, corallites, &c. one of which I 

 had occasion to speak of in the preceding volume. 



From the accounts of Dr. Barton, General Collard, Mr. Smith Barton, 

 Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Dunbar, and others, it appears that considerable quan- 

 tities of these remains have been found in different parts, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Ohio, of the Mississippi, and of the Missouri. They have 

 iiot, however, been yet foutid higher than the Lake Erie, in about 43 



* An account has been given of the discover\of the remains of a mammoth, on the shores 

 of the Frozen Sea, with its flesh, skin, and hair, in good preservation. This account, written 

 by M. Michael Adams, of Petersburgh, was kindly communicated by Sir Joseph Banks to Mr. 

 Tilloch, by whom it was published, in the Philosophical Magazine, Vol. xxix. page 141. This 

 discovery excited a considerable degree of attention, which was however, by many, misdi- 

 rected ; since they should rather have regarded this animal as, perhaps, one of the lost spe- 

 cies of elephants, than as a mammoth or mastodon. That it could not have been one of this 

 latter genus is evident, from the account of M. Adams himself; who says: " The mam- 

 moth in my possession is quite different from that found near New York, which, from the 

 description," he says, " had carnivorous teeth." M. Adams concurring with the Russians, in. 

 giving the name of mammoth to the elephants found imbedded in those parts. 



