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points forwards. There are several specimens 

 of these in the British Museum, but none so large 

 as this. 



A few years since some large bones, of an un- 

 common kind, were found in a cave in Virginia, 

 highly preserved by lying in earth abounding 

 with nitre. They were sent to the Philosophi- 

 cal Society, and an account of them published 

 in the fourth volume of their Transactions : By 

 permission of the Society, I have made accurate 

 casts of them. 



Hence it appears that four animals of enor- 

 mous magnitude have formerly existed in Ame- 

 rica, perhaps at the same time, and of natures 

 very opposite : i st, The Mammoth, carnivorous ; 

 2.d, An animal whose graminivorous teeth, larger 

 than, and different from, those of the elephant, 

 are sometimes found; ^d, The great Indian 

 bull; and, 42"^, An animal probably of the sloth 

 kind, as appears on comparison with the bones 

 found in Virginia, and a skeleton found in 

 South America, and preserved in the Museum 

 at Madrid. 



Mr. Jefferson, on the Mammoth bones, says, 

 *' To whatever animal we ascribe these remains. 



