laiiy the tusks and teeth) are frequently in 

 excellent preservation in Siberia, none have 

 ever been found in America but in the extreme 

 of decay: at any rate, that there is this dif- 

 ference in the kind and preservation of these 

 bones must be an interesting fact to natural- 

 ists, and lead to some particular conclusions, 

 since it must have been owing to some par- 

 ticular causes; either such as I have imagined, 

 or others equally conclusive* 



The Mammouth bones found in Siberia, hav- 

 ing given name to the great fossil bones of 

 America, those writers who, from observation, 

 knew the former to be elephantine, concluded 

 the latter to be so likewise, especially if they 

 happened to hear any thing of the great grami- 

 nivorous teeth above-mentioned : they there- 

 fore adopted the idea, that the various leg- 

 bones, 6cc. found on the Ohio, were part of 

 the same animal which owuied these teeth j 

 and that the jaw-bones, with carnivorous or 

 conic-ridged teeth, were the only remains of 

 some other stupendous being, analagous to the 

 Hyppopotamus : but three unquestionable 

 facts now prove the reverse to be the case. 



