GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



MUCH has been said on the subject of the 

 bones found in America by persons who ne- 

 ver saw them, or but mutilated fragments of 

 them y resting their faith upon what has been 

 said by certain writers of science ^nd respect- 

 ability, on the Mammouth of Siberia; and 

 thence falling into the error, that those large 

 bones found in America were of the same 

 species. 



Many years ago, when scientific travellers, 

 several of whom were commissioned by the 

 Emperor of Russia, found in the inhospitable 

 regions of Siberia numerous quadruped bones, 

 of gigantic size, they learnt from the pea- 

 sants to distinguish them by the term Mam- 

 mouth, an animal which they believed to be 

 still living. These bones^ inftead of another 



