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named Logan, friendly to the whites, and who remained among the whites 

 after the Indians were driven away." 



Under date of March 30, 1 S 7 < > . Professor Loomis wrote again to Professor 

 Hamlin respecting the same matter, from which I quote the following: 



"I sought an interview with Dr. Beck The Colonel Kelly referred 



to was a soldier and officer in the Revolutionary War. and was a leading 

 man in some fight in New Jersey during the war. A small monument is in 

 our cemetery to his memory, from which 1 take the following inscription : 

 'Col. John Kelly died Feb. 18th, 1832, aged 88 years & 7 days.' He owned 

 a farm about five miles from Lewisburg, in Kelly township, which was 

 named from him. About 1790 or 1800 (such is the indefinitcncss) Colonel 

 Kelly was out with his gun on the McClister farm (which joined that of 

 Colonel Kelly), and just at evening saw and shot a buffalo. His dog was 

 3 - oung. and at so late an hour he did not allow it to pursue. The next morn- 

 ing he went to hunt his game, but did not find it. Nearly a week later word 

 was brought him that it had been found, dead, some mile or two away. He 

 found the information correct, but the animal had been considerably torn and 

 eaten by wolves. He regarded the animal as a stray one, and had never 

 heard of any in the valley at a later day. Dr. Beck had the account from 



Colonel Kelly about three months before his death The Colonel also 



told him that the valley was wooded originally with large but scattered 

 trees, so that the grass grew abundantly and furnished good pasturage tor 

 the buffalo, and that the animal had been from this circumstance very 

 abundant in the valley. The Colonel repeated the statement of a friendly 

 Indian, Logan (probably not the native chief of that name), who said that 



the buffalo had been very abundant. He. Dr. Beck, had the same statement 



from Michael Grove, also one of the firsl settlers in the valley 1 was 



more particular than 1 should ordinarily have been, because this is about the 

 last stage when reliable tradition can be had." 



This, of course, affords satisfactory proof of the former existence of the 

 buffalo in the region aboul Lewisburg, which forms the mosi easterly point 



to which the buffalo has been positively traced.* 



• In i' apposed remaini "i Bison anurieanua from the Carlisle bone-caves, Pi li wor Baird, 



Dl letter to me (dated Mbj 18, 1876), expressed some doubt as t" their being referable to thai 



A re-examination of them he thinks wmiM be necessary in order to determine " whether Ihejr 



are of the bison, and it' so of which species." During my recent ii-it t" Washington, quite careftil search 



[mens, but unfortunately without finding them, though they are doubtless -till stored 



here in the Museum of the Smiihsoni in Institution, and will some dai be found. 



