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rida and Cuba, carrying with it the loam and 

 sand it may have scoped from the country it 

 had occupied ; part of which it may have de- 

 posited on the shores of North America, and 

 with part formed the banks of Newfoundland." 



But I weary your attention: honor me with 

 it, however, till we draw from matter so diffuse 

 a few dialectical and useful conclusions. 



I have endeavoured to prove, Jirsl, that 

 bones found throughout America, and com 

 monly called mammoth bones, are the remains 

 of more than one species of non-descript ani- 

 mal ; 2dl2/^ that the real mammoth is a laro-e 

 order of the elephant according w ith the behe- 

 moth of Job ; jdly, that in consequence he in 

 herbivorous, as manifested by his tusks and 

 grinders; — 4thly, that this climate was once 

 congenial to his nature, though now so adverse 

 to his pursuits and sensibilities; — 5t/ily, that 

 had the climate never suited his affections, still 

 he might have migrated to this country, to avoid 

 some shock of nature in his own; and Gthlj/, 

 that the two last axioms lead to a conclusion, 

 that this superb animal exists no more, or that 

 he is only to be found in some of the remote 



