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up with paws extended In front, being well displayed. Carvings of 

 small rodents in similar attitudes are exhibited in Stevens's " Flint 

 Chips," p. Jr28, Figs. Gl and 02. Stevens's Fig. 61 evidently represents 

 the same animal as Fig. 157 of Squier and Davis, but is a better executed 

 carving. 



In illustration of the somewhat vague idea entertained byarclueolo- 

 gists as to what the manatee is like, it is of interest to note that the 

 carving of a second otter with a fish in its mouth has been made to do 

 duty as a manatee, although the latter animal is well known never to eat 

 tish, but, on the contrary, to be strictly herbivorous. Thus Stevens gives 

 figures of two carvings in his " Flint Chips," p. 429, Figs. 65 and 66, call- 

 ing them manatees, and says: '' In one particular, however, the sculj)- 

 tors of the mound-period committed an error. Although the lamantin is 

 strictly herbivorous, feeding chiefly upon subaqueous plants and littoral 

 herbs, yet upon one of the stone smoking pipes, Fig. 66, this animal is 

 represented with a fish in its mouth." Mr. Stevens apparently pre- 

 ferred to credit the mound sculptor with gross ignorance of the habits 

 of the manatee, rather than to abate one jot or tittle of the claim pos- 

 sessed by the carving to be considered a representation of that animal. 

 Stevens's fish-catching manatee is the same carving given by Dr. Eau, 

 in the Arcluuological Collection of the United States National Museum, 

 p. 47, Fig. 180, where it is correctly stated to be an otter. This cut, 

 which can scarcely be distinguished from one given by Stevens (Fig. 66), 

 is here reproduced (Fig. 6), together with the second suj)posed manatee 

 of the latter writer (Fig. 7). 



To afford a means of comparison. Fig. 154, from the "Ancient Monu- 



Fig. 6.-- Otter of Kaa ; Man.itee uf StoTcns. Fig. 7.— Manatee of Stevens. 



ments" of Squier and Davis, is introduced (Fig. 8). The same figure is 

 also to be found in Wilson's Frehistoric Man, vol. i, p. 476, Fig. 22. 

 Another of the supposed lamantins, Fig. 9, is taken from Squier's article 

 in the Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. ii, p. 188. 

 A bad print of the same wood-cut appears as Fig. 153, p. 251, of the 

 "Ancient Monuments." 



It should be noted that the physiognomy of Fig. 6, above given, 

 although uuquestionably of an otter, agrees more closely with the sev- 

 eral so-called manatees, which are represented without fishes, than with 

 the fish-bearing otter, first mentioned, Fig. 4. 



Fig. 6 thus serves as a connecting link in the series, uniting the un- 

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