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of north latitude. These remains are also found on this side of the three 

 great chains of mountains, the Aliganys, the North Mountains, and 

 the Blue Mountains; in the anterior parts of Pennsylvania and Caro- 

 lina ; and in New Jersey, a few miles from Philadelphia. 



Among the more curious discoveries which have been made respecting 

 this animal, is that which is related by Mr. Maddison, of a considerable 

 quantity of bones found in Virginia, near to Green Briar, where the 

 bones of the megatherium were found. The discovery of these bones 

 was accompanied with a circumstance particularly interesting. In the 

 midst of them was found a mass of small branches, grass, and leaves ; and 

 among the latter, some of a species of reed, which is at present common 

 in Virginia. These were all half bruised, and appeared to be contained 

 in a kind of bag, which was considered as the stomach of the animal : 

 the contained substances were supposed to have been taken by the ani- 

 mal as food. 



The teeth brought from Peru by Dombey and M. de Humbolt, as 

 well as that brought by the latter naturalist from Terra Fir ma, are, 

 in the opinion of M. Cuvier, of a different species from the North 

 American. He also suspects this to be the case with the teeth from 

 Brazil and Lima, mentioned by Dr. Hunter; and concludes, that 

 these bones, so common in South America, are very rarely found else- 

 where. 



These bones are always found but at a little depth, and seldom appear 

 to have changed their situations since the death of the animal. Mr. Bar- 

 ton relates two instances, where the soft parts of the animal appear to 

 have been dug up ; and the Indians described one of the heads which 

 were dug up in 1762, as having over the mouth a long nose, which Mr. 

 Barton supposes must have been the trunk. Kalm, speaking of a ske- 

 leton discovered by the savages of Illinois, says, that the form of a trunk 

 was yet discoverable, although half decomposed. 



M. Cuvier informs us that there is at Paris a fragment, which, if the 

 account of it be authentic, would make us doubt whether this species is 

 really extinct. It is part of a foot, with five nails attached to it ; and 



