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JL HE curiosity of the scientific world has for 

 a long time been justly excited by the fossil 

 remains of a non-descript animal, which have 

 been found in North America and Siberia, but 

 generally in so mutilated a condition as to give 

 but very imperfect ideas either of the size or kind 

 of animal to which they n'ust have belonged. 

 The first account of them which we can find, is 

 in the fifth volume of Jones's Philosophical 

 Transactions abridged, part fecond, page i^g, 

 in an extract of a letter from Dr. Mather to 

 Dr. Woodward, dated Bofton, Nov. 17, 17 12; 

 in which the Doctor gives an account of a large 

 v;ork in manuscript, intitledthc Biblta Americana. 

 This work Dr. Ma: her recommends to the 

 patronage of some Meccenas, to promote the 

 publication of. As a specimen of it he transcribes 

 a passage out of it, being a note on that passag-e 

 in Genesis^ chap. vi. verse 4, relating to giants ; 



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