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Queries and orders concerning the bones, called 
elephants bones, found in the marfli, called the 
Salt-Lick, near the River Ohio. 
I. Do thofe bones appear to have lain upon the fur- 
face of the earth from the flrd ? Or, 
II. Do they feem to have been originally at fome 
depth in the earth, and to have been after- 
wards expofed by the earth’s falling away, 
or by its being wafbed away by floods, &c. ? 
III. How far is that part of the marfh from the 
river ? How high above the common fur- 
face of the water of the river? And does it 
appear probable, from the level and face of 
that marfli, that in former times the river 
may have run where the bones are ? 
IV. How many elephants fkeletons have been found, 
as far as may be colledted from the number 
of tufks, or other marks ? and at what di- 
dance from one another ? 
V. To fend over, if poflible, a whole head, or the 
mod entire parts of a head, efpecially of the 
upper jaw j and a foot, or the fmall bones of 
it, if they can be diflinguifhed ; and any 
bones which have thofe parts pretty entire 
which once made a joint. 
VI. To make correct drawings of any of the bones 
which are pretty entire, if, on account of 
their fize, or tendernefs, they cannot be fent 
over to England. 
VII. If the bones do not lie in blended heaps, but 
thofe of one Angle animal all together, and 
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