220 GREAT ELEPHANT. 
not far from the river Miame, seven hundred 
miles from the sea coast. Of these the thigh- 
bones are much thicker in proportion than in 
the common Elephant : the grinders or side-teeth 
are very d liferent from those of the Elephant, 
and, instead of having a flat top with numerous 
transverse scores^ as in that animal, are pretty 
deeply lobed, like the teeth of carnivorous ani- 
mals : the tusks bear a great resemblance to those 
of the common Elephant, but have an inclination 
to a spiral curve tOAvards the smaller end*: in 
their common texture they perfectly resemble 
common ivory. It seems, therefore, extremely 
clear that this animal must have been a species 
differing from the common Elephant, but greatly 
resembling it. Whether it may yet exist in any 
of the unexplored parts of the globe, must be left 
to future investigations to determine. These bones 
are not peculiar to the northern regions of Ame- 
rica, but have also been found in Siberia, in Tern, 
and in the Brasils ; and it has been remarked that 
they are found at greater depths than the remains 
of the common Elephant, in strata, which are sup- 
posed to have been the ruins of the old world, 
after the event of the deluge. 
The Elephant brings only one young at a time : 
very rarely two : the young are about three feet 
high when they are first born ; and continue grow- 
* The tusks of the cofnmon Elephant have sometimes not only 
an inclination to a spiral bend, but are actually twisted into two or 
three spiral curvatures^ as in that described and engraved in Grew's 
Museum Regalis Societatis ; and which is now preserved in the Bri^ 
tish Museum. 
