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XXII. Account of a SlccMon of a Large Animal, found near 



Hudson's rdvcr. By the Rev. 3fr. ROBERT ANNAN 



Boston, December, 1785. 



SIR, 



■ following Narration teas draivn up, soon after the discovery 



iJicrcin mentioned, tms made. But my removal from the 

 Slate of Nciv-York to this ioiim had so deranged my papers, 

 that, for a long time, I ivas cfraid it had been lost. If you 

 think it ii'orthy a place in your curious collections, it is at 



your service. 



Robert Annan. 



N the fall of tlie year 1780, whilst 1 resided in the state 

 of Nc^Y-York, on the banks of a small river, named the 

 Walkill, about seventy miles from the city of New-York, 

 and fifteen miles in a perpendicular line on the west side of 

 Hudson's river, a young man, whom I had employed to 

 drain a deep and wet swamp on my farm, digged up the re- 

 mains of a very surprising animal, without taking notice of 

 any thing except the grinders. The bones were become so 

 soft, that the spade cut them almost as easily as the clay. 

 After breaking one of the grinders, he threw them on the 

 side of the ditch ; and being a stranger to contemplation, 



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took no further notice of the matter, only on coming home 

 at night, said among the servants, that he had found some 

 strange stones in the ditch. I heard nothing of the affair at 

 that time: but within a day or two after, went out to see 



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