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Received November 19, 1767. 
XLVI. An Account of fame very large FoJJil 
'Teeth, found in North America, and de- 
ferred by Peter Collinfon, F. R . S. 
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Read Nov. 26,^ Perfwade myfelf it will not be unac- 
I767 ‘ Jj[ ceptable to this Learned Society, to 
receive the beft intelligences I can collect of the 
teeth, and bones of elephants, found in North 
America, in the year 1766, which are now offered 
for your infpection. 
George Croghan, Efquire, who is a deputy of Sir 
William Johnlon, the King’s fuperintendant of In- 
dian affairs in America, in the courfe of his navi- 
gation down the great river Ohio, after puffing the 
Miame river, in the evening came near the place 
where the elephants bones are found, about four 
miles fouth-eaft of the Ohio, and about fix hundred 
miles diftant from and below Pitfburgh, from the 
neareft fea-coaft at lead feven hundred miles; Next 
morning he met with a large road, which the buf- 
faloes had beaten, wide enough for two waggons to 
go a-breaft, leading ftrait into the great licking- 
place, to which the buffaloes and all the fpecies of 
deer refort, at a certain feafon of the year, to lick the 
earth and water from fait fprings, that are impreg- 
nated with nitreous particles ; whether to clean le 
their 
