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course of time the ideas of two distinct animals 

 are confounded ; for I have brought with me a 

 plaister cast from a bone presented last June to 

 the Philosophical Society of Philadelpha, by 

 Major Brown, of Kentucky : it is unquestion- 

 ably a fragment of an animal of the ox kind, 

 but of a most stupendous magnitude. It con- 

 sists of a large portion of one side of the back 

 part of the head, and part of the other ; and 

 the internal substance or pith^ which was covered 

 by the horn, twenty-one inches in circumfe- 

 rence, and with the horn on it, must have been 

 at least twenty-four or twenty-five. This bone 

 was found, in a creek which empties into the 

 Ohio, some years ago, and by the proprietors 

 supposed to have been part of the Mammoth. 

 It is impregnated with ferruginous earth, and in 

 high preservation ; and must have been broken 

 with violence, but no one knows of any other 

 portion of it. 



Various bones, generally pieces of the head of 

 the oxen kind, have been found in all parts of 

 Europe and in Asia, having the same character 

 which distinguishes the one from which this cast 

 was made, in the form and direction of the 

 horn ; it descends backwards, and then rising. 



