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Ohio, where an amazirg number of bones of the 

 elephant, as he imagined them to be, were 

 found, together with teeth totally unlike those 

 of the elephant, concludes thus : *' But the large 

 teeth which I send you, Sir, were found with 

 those tusks or defences ; others yet larger than 

 these shew, nay demonstrate, that they did not 

 belong to elephants. How shall we reconcile 

 this paradox ? May we not suppose that there 

 existed formerly a large animal with the tijsks 

 of the elephant and the grinders of the hippopo- 

 tamus ? For these large grinders are very differ- 

 ent from those of the elephant. Mr. Croghan 

 thinks, from the great number of this kind of 

 teeth, that is, the tusks and grinders which he 

 saw in that place, that there had been at least 

 thirty of th se animals; yet the elephant never 

 was known in America, and probably could not 

 have been carried there from Asia : the impos- 

 sibility that they could have lived there, owing 

 to the severity of the winters, and where, not- 

 withstanding such a quantity of their bones is 

 found, is a paradox which we leave to your emi- 

 nent wisdom to solve." This determination 

 M. Buffon gives us in the following terms, al- 

 though in direct contradiction to those passages 

 in which he labours to prove that the bones 

 found in Siberia and America were bones of the 



