but a small morass divested of its water ^ and 

 hence the decayed state of the bones. 



It appears that about the year 1 740, great 

 numbers of bones, of a similar kind, were found 

 in Kentucky on the Ohio; but they were 

 collected with such eagerness, and forwarded 

 to Europe so hastily, that it shortly became 

 impossible to distinguish one set of bones from 

 another, so as to ascertain their number, pro- 

 portion, and kind ; parts of the same animal 

 having been scattered over England, France, 

 and Germany, and there compared with similar 

 ones from Siberia. Buffon * speaking of one of 

 these thigh-bones brought from the Ohio by the 

 way of Canada, which he describes as being the 

 tenth of an inch shorter than one from Siberia, 

 and yet an inch thicker, says; "This dispropor- 

 tion is so great as hitherto to deceive me with 

 respect to this bone, though it otherwise re- 

 sembles, both in the external figure and internal 

 structure, the femur of the elephant (he should 

 have said, the femur found in Siberia), men- 

 tioned under the number dcdlxxxvii. The 

 difference in thickness, which appeared exces- 

 sive, seemed sufficient to attribute this bone to 



* Vol. XL Page 169, No. mxxxv. Autre Femur d'EIephante. 



