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as an animal fo called^ are entirely fabulous ; 

 the name being a corruption from the Behomet, 

 signifying an animal of large size, and there- 

 fore applied to bones that were certainly of a 

 large size: — but when bones of equal or su- 

 perior magnitude were found on the Ohio, in 

 America, they were supposed to be of the 

 same species, and therefore called Mammoth^ by 

 which name they have been known for sixty 

 years, and called so by thousands who knew 

 not the origin of the word. The Siberian 

 bones turn out to be elephantine; those of 

 America, particularly from the teeth, cannot 

 be: therefore, since the animal was not an 

 elephant, naturalists are now agreed in the 

 propriety of distinguishing it by the name of 

 Mammoth i not as a name by which, when 

 living, it was ever called, but as a term well 

 appropriated to express its quality of super- 

 eminent magnitude. 



After reciting the account given by Mr. 

 Fabry, who states the place and manner in 

 which Mr. le Baron de Longueuil, Mr. de 

 Bienville, and Mr. de Lignery (lieutenant in 

 Canada), found some of these bones and teeth 



