To Charles Willson Peale. 



In addressing this to one of the 

 best of fathers, it is but just that the 

 world should know how much, and 

 in what manner, it is indebted to 

 you for the antique treasure of which 

 the following pages treat. 



When some of the first discover- 

 ed bones of the Mammoth were, 

 eighteen years ago, brought to vou 

 by Dr. Brown, for the purpose of 

 making drawings from them, they 

 were put into one corner of your 

 picture gallery, where they fixed 

 the astonishment of every visitor, 



