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lish language, and is, perhaps, little known in America, I hope it 
will not be altogether unwelcome, if I lay before the Academy a 
repetition i some of the facts which were stated in that work, 
urnish some very striking evidences of ibis existence 
of Man, on iis continent, in the age of the living Mastodon. I 
do this the more readily, for the reason that some account of ‘this 
discovery was published, pci" ter at the time, in the Phila- 
delphia “Presbyterian” newspaper, ein which it was copied a 
the Amer. Jour. of Belasth (vol. xxxvi. p. 199), with some e 
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_ pressions of regret by the editor, that facts, so highly interest cng a 
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ae im ees should be left to rest on anonymous auth 
nT will stat state then, that, in the year 1839, I peat dan ee dis- 
interred, in Guscinade county, Missouri, ‘(La t. 38° 20’ N.) ata 
, in the bottom of the Bourbeuse River, whic big: was a 
ale welt preserved to enable me to decide, positively, 
_ circumstances were connected with this discovery. 
"portion of these bones. 
te D odie aod, ‘hat the fire had not bee an neds 0 
tal one, but, on the contrary, that it had been kindled by human 
, and, according to all appearance, with the eee of k 
ature, which had been found mired 
; conditic 
2 I found as well*those pa 
ntouched by the fire, fem sees ' 
ss injured by it, or in part consu I found 
ind legs of the animal in a erpenlion ir posi 
the toes attached to oa Eh in just th 
they were, at_ the moment when life 
erat watficis > 
at ‘they Bélonged to Mastodon giganteus. Some remarkable 
eater 
