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main, existed, had tiieir day, and have pe- 

 rished; and yet the fancifal chain of nature is 

 not broken ! or else a new chain has taken 

 the place of the old. Formerly it was as un- 

 philosophical and impious to say that any 

 thing ceased to exist which had been created, 

 as it is now to say the reverse, because innu- 

 merable concurring facts pi ove,that the races of 

 many animals have become extinct; since it is 

 not possible that so many, and such large ani- 

 mals, should live unknown, although one or 

 two species might. 



In another place I have pointed those cir- 

 cumstances, wherein the head of the Mam- 

 moth and that of the Elephant materially 

 differ; my object in this place is to hazard 

 some ideas relative to the habits and the food 

 of the former. When it has been said of the 

 Mammoth that it must have been carnivorous, 

 the word was not intended to convey the idea of 

 his being a i?east of prey, like the tiger, wolf, 

 &c. but that his food must have been animal, 

 because all vegetables (except fruit) require 

 peculiar instruments to file, bruise, or grind 

 them, totally unlike the teeth of the IVlam- 



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