364 ANCIENT DAMS AND LAKES ON THE 



species ; a quadruped of the elephantine family, now 

 probably extinct. 



Of this species appears to be the animal, whose remains 

 were brought by Major Craig from the banks of the 

 Ohio, in 1786. They consisted of a thigh-bone, part of 

 a tusk, and a portion of the jaw with the grinders. They 

 were figured by Colonel De Brahm, and published in the 

 Columbian Magazine, at Philadelphia, vol. I. p. 103 lOf. 



Lakes and Dams, which formerly existed on the outside of the 

 cordon or barrier already described. 



Though these supposed collections of water were si- 

 tuated on the outside of the dam herein-before traced, as 

 reaching from the Thousand Isles, in Canada, round to 

 Cape Girardeau, in Missouri, yet they appear to have 

 given to the country a character and configuration too 

 important to be omitted in this memoir. 



1. The lakes, breaches and alluvions of Connecticut 

 river. 



Some persons suppose that a dam existed in former 

 days at Bellas' falls. If so, there must have been a 

 lake above them. When that lake was exhausted or run 

 out, dry land was brought to view, and a wash of move- 

 able matters carried to the region below. 



If we can suppose that there was once, at one or more 

 places in Massachusetts and Connecticut, higher up 

 than Hartford, dams and lakes, then it will be evi- 

 dent that the breaking or disrupture of such dams 

 would inundate the lower country, and cover it with a 



