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and daily served to confirm your 

 intention of procuring, if possible, 

 an entire skeleton. This your per- 

 severing zeal has at length accom- 

 plished : but a more extensive be- 

 nefit vv^as likevsdse the consequence ; 

 and the Museum, of which you are 

 the founder, already rivalling many 

 in Europe, is to be ascribed to the 

 same cause, and dated from the same 

 period. The bones of the Mam- 

 moth first produced the idea of a 

 Museum, which, after eighteen years 

 of rapid approach to maturity, un- 

 der the unprecedented exertions of 

 an individual, has in its turn enabled 

 you to place among its treasures 

 nearly a perfect skeleton of the 

 Mammoth — the first of American 

 animals, in the first of American 



