AN 



HISTORICAL DISQUISITION 



ON THE 



MAMMOTH. 



INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 



THE revolutions which have happened on 

 our earth, by w^hich its original appearance 

 has been successively changed, have, at all 

 times, commanded the attention of the learned, 

 and excited various speculations concerning 

 the time, cause and manner; and although 

 WQ may never learn much on a subject so ex- 

 tensive, so remote and so w^onderful, yet as 

 far as facts will authorize us, we may safely 

 proceed : and if no other good should arise 

 from the study than an abstraction from less 



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