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unusual degree of strength, and is in fact necessary to the sup- 
port of his enormous tusks. ‘he verses that I have not quoted 
treat of the natural history of the animal, but there is nothing 
mentioned in them that can be construed into a contradiction 
of the above comparison; on the contrary, were we acquainted 
with the true history of the Missourium, and its peculiar habits, 
I am fully convinced that the description given in the book of 
Job would be in every particular minutely correct. 
Before closing this subject, I will refer to the 34th and last 
verse of the same chapter before mentioned—* He beholdeth 
all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.” 
Here it is said that no created being can come into competition 
with him, and prosper. Whoever examines his gigantic remains, 
will acknowledge the justness of the above remark, and that he 
was indeed king over all the brute creation. 
As some may perhaps be ready to enquire how the leviathan 
which is described as being an inhabitant of Asia, came to be 
found in the extreme west of the globe, I will merely refer such 
persons to the history of all living animals, as well as those now 
extinct, of the same species, which are distributed over different 
parts of the world. Notwithstanding the great difference of 
climate and other local causes, they ean still be recognized as 
the same animals, haying but few marks of distinction. There 
is for instance, the elephant found alive in Africa and Asia, ° 
and in a fossil state in the north and west of America; the mas- 
tadon found in a fossil state in America and Europe, and some 
other parts of the globe, and thus of smaller living and fossil 
animals: therefore there was nothing to prevent the leviathan 
from being an inhabitant of the great waters of America, as 
well as those of Asia. The reader will have decided, from 
reading the analysis of the deposite in which the skeleton was 
found, that the Missourium was a tropical animal. 
EVIDENCES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE CONTEMPORARY WITH 
FOSSIL ANIMALS. 
It is well known by all persons acquainted with geology, 
that is admitted as a fact, that the mastodons, together with 
the generality of antediluyian animals, existed and became 
