1G4 



DacrijMon of a ricmarJcaUe Horn or Bone. 



f 



nial 



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might destroy some of them, but not all. And the 



have been discovered in different parts of 



of them 



the world. His Excellency, General Washington, came to 



m\ 



to see these 



He told me, lie had in his 



house a grinder which was found on the Ohio, much 



bling these. 



And in the American Magazine of December 



1746, there is an account of a tooth and bones, of what the 

 author calls an elephant, discovered in England, which, I am 



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persuaded, must have been of the same species. I shall con- 

 clude this narrative with the devout and rapturous excljima- 

 tion of the Psalmist "Great and marvellous are thy works, 

 Lord God Almighty ! " 



I am Sir, with much respect, your most 



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obedient, and humble servant. 



ROBEUT ANNAN. 



To the Presiden't of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



XXIII 



A Descrijjiion of a Rom or Bone, lately found in the Pdv 



Chcmnnr/, or Tyorja, a western Branch 



the Sitsquehann 



ahout twelve miles f 



Tyoga P 



Hon. 

 Better 



TIMOTHY EDWARDS 



t : Communicated 

 StocJchndge, Esq. 



the 



in a 



4. 



the Rev. Joseph Willard, D. D 



a 



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feet nine inches 



6^ 



nty 



January, 1788. 

 one inches round 



large end, and fifteen inches, at the small end 



In the large end 



ity, two and an half inches in diam 



eter, 



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