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Since the publication of the " A^oles^'' ho^\■ 

 ever, many add'tional facts have occiined, which 

 favor the assigning a rvidi'r range to this incog- 

 nitum ; for in cutting the Santre and Cowper 

 River Canal in South Carolina, there was turn- 

 ed up a collection of bones, answering by de- 

 scription to those of the mammoth. Their num- 

 ber, variety, and arrangement were such, as en- 

 tirely to prelude the idea of their having been 

 carried thither as curiosities. The following 

 letter, from t le most respectable authority, 

 extends this rano;e still wider : — 



" Washington, I804. 



" SIR, 



" It is with some interest that I have learn- 

 ed from the B iron Hombaldt, who has been 

 five years travelling through South America, 

 that among othe r curious animal remains, he 

 has discovered several specimens of the mam- 

 moth, perfectly distinguished by the great 

 carnivorous teeth. He found them as far as 

 latitude 33 south, but always on the highest 

 mountains ; which the baron takes to be satis- 

 factory evidence, that this great unknown must 

 have been the inhabitant of a cold climate. In 

 North America, none of those bones have ever 

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