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I have frequently been asked, if from ap- 

 pearances it could be determined whether the 

 Mammoth originally inhabited America, or 

 the carcases of them may not have been depo- 

 sited there? This question is best answered by 

 others: if not originally of America, where 

 alone their bones are found, and in consider- 

 able numbers, from what country could a 

 deluge have transported them, that not one 

 trace Is left behind ? Besides, since they are 

 only found in one country, why should we 

 seek occasion to admit the improbable idea 

 that they belonged to another? 



It is an extraordinary circumstance, that in 

 the salt-lick on the Ohio, these bones, large 

 and small, young and old, are intermixed with 

 the bones of Buffaloes and Deer^ as if what 

 the Indians say had been really the case, and 

 that these were the collected remains of ages, 

 of those sickly animals which had died durinp* 

 their visit to the salt morass ; for it is 

 weir known that to this salt morass and 

 others in Kentucky, there are broad roads 

 made by Buffaloes and Deer, which are seen 

 greedily to drink the salt water or lick the salt 



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