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thinner, placed in straiter lines mere closely 

 together, and much more numerous, than in 

 the modern Elephant. 



As soon as it was known in Europe that bones 

 of a large size were likewise found in America, 

 and either the thigh-bones or drawings of then-^ 

 sent over, they were instantly pronodnced the 

 same as those found in Siberia -, and, from the 

 circumstance of this opinion having been so 

 hastily expressed, there have been some whose 

 mature judgment has been satisfied with en- 

 creasing proofs, who have, nevertheless, been 

 weak enough to be ashamed to confess it. For it 

 is a fact of which almost every man of any ob- 

 servation may have had sufficient proof, that 

 even amiong men of real science, ti'uth suffers 

 more from the tenacity of opinion once expres- 

 sed, than from a want of love for it — all men love 

 it, but fear to be thought weathercocks^ and, cer-T 

 tain that they are not deities, they shrink from 

 the imputation of infallibility ! Every anatomist 

 knows that a judgment pronounced from one 

 bone is liable to error j and, in fact, there was 

 no more reason to pronounce the Femon, found 

 in Arnerica, to be elephantine, than therq 



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