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elephant : '* Thus every thing leads us to be- 

 lieve that this ancient species, which must be 

 regarded as the first and largest of terrestrial 

 animals, has not existed since the earliest times, 

 and is totally unknown to us; for an animal 

 whose species was larger than that of the ele- 

 phant, could hide itself in no part of the earth 

 so as to remain unknown; besides, it is evident 

 from the form of these teeth alone, from their 

 enamel and the disposition of their roots, that 

 they bear no resemblance to the cachelots, or 

 other cetaceous animals, and that they really 

 belonged to a terrestrial animal whose species 

 approached that of the hippopotamus more 

 than any other." 



The world is now in possession of two un- 

 disputed skeletons of this animal, found in such 

 situations as leave no room for conjecture ; each 

 skeleton being dug up in a separate place, with- 

 out any intermixture of foreign bones, and each 

 bone exactly adapted to its corresponding points 

 of articulation. One of these skeletons is erected 

 as a permanent establishment at the Museum, 

 Philadelphia ; the other I have brought with me, 

 with an intention to travel through Europe, be» 

 ginning with the metropolis of England. 



