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sought these cool places to die in j or perhaps 

 both. 



No calculation can be made of the length of 

 time necessary to have formed these morasses, 

 although we are certain that, as in fifty years 

 past scarcely any change appears, it must have 

 been proportionally slower in the commence- 

 ment; and a period has elapsed in which all ac- 

 counts of this animal have dwindled into 

 oblivion, unless a confused Indian tradition 

 about the great Buffalo be supposed connected 

 with it. 



Among the remains of gigantic and un- 

 known animals, found in America, one of the 

 Ox or B u F F A L o kind was lately discovered near 

 the big-bone-lick in Kentucky*. The right 

 horn is broken off, and all the fore part of the 

 head ; but from the fragment remaining, it is 

 a reasonable conjecture, that the Buffalo to 

 which it belonged was about lo or ii feet 

 high. The pith of the horn at the base mea- 

 sures 21 inches in circumference, and tapers 



* Sec the Philosophical Magazine for May 1803, p. 325. 



