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fcither was fortunate to make a purchase of*, 

 together with the right of digging up the re- 

 mainder i and, immediately packing them up, 

 sent them on to Philadelphia. But as the far- 

 mer's fields were then in grain, the enterprizc 

 of further investigation was postponed for a 

 short time. 



The whole of this part of the country 

 abounding with morasses, solid enough for 

 cattle to walk over, containing peat, or turf 

 and shell marie, it is the custom of the far- 

 mers to assise each other, in order to obtain 

 a quantity of the marie for manure. Pits 

 are dug generally twelve feet long and five 

 feet wide at the top, lessening to three feet at 



* They consisted of all the neck, most of the vertebra? of 

 the back, and some of the tail; most of the ribs, in greater 

 part broken ; both fcapulse ; both humeri, with the radii and 

 ulnae ; one femur ; a tibia of one leg, and a fibula of the other ; 

 Some large fragments of the head ; many of the fore and hind 

 feet bones; the pelvis fomewhat broken j and a large frag- 

 ment, five feet long, of one tusk, about mid-way. He 

 therefore was in want of som.e of the back and tail bones, 

 some of the ribs, the under jaw, one wliole tusk and part of 

 the other, the breast bone, one thigh, and a tibia and fibula, 

 and many of the feet bones. 



