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after describing the situation of the salt lick 

 on the Ohio, where an amazing number of 

 bones of the elephant, as he imagined them to 

 be, were found, together with teeth totally 

 unlike those qf 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 de-^ 

 monstrate, that they did not belong to ele- 

 phants. How shall we reconcile this paia- 

 dox ? May we not suppose that there existed 

 formerly a large animal w^ith the tusks of the 

 elephant and the grinders of the hippopota^ 

 mus ? For these large grinders are very dif- 

 ferent from those of the elephant ^ (and sub- 

 sequent examination proves them to be as 

 different from those of the hippopotamus,) 

 "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 these ani- 

 mals*: yet the elephant never was known in 



* The number could only he determined by the quantity 

 of duplicate bones— there must have been tlie remains of se- 

 veral of them ; and it is very certain that In the same neigh- 

 bourhood the number must have been very great indeed, con- 



