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the remains of the Mammoth and the great 

 Buffalo iti the same country, that the distinct 

 ideas of each have been in time confounded, 

 the terrible /(JwTr of the one with the name of 

 the other. This idea, however, is very un- 

 certain ; but as it has been usual to mention 

 the bones of the Mammoth and the tradition 

 together, it will not be uninteresting if we take 

 notice of it here, especially as it is a specimen 

 of the Indian mode of description, which is 

 always highly poetical, and much in the stile 

 of Ossian. 



INDIAN TRADITION. 



" Ten thousand moons ago, when nought 

 but gloomy forests covered this land of the 

 sleeping sun ; long before the pale men, witl\. 

 thunder and fire at their command, rushed on 

 the wings of the wind to ruin this garden of 



