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to designate a difterence of species, it may be 
that there exist the fossil remains of, at least, 
of elephants, which were different ifom those '''ill' 
\vc arc acquainted. 
From the precedin 
observations it appears, 
'die fossil elephantine remains, notwithstanding 
olance in seme respects to the bones of the 
phant, have belonged 
from those which 
to one or more 
specif, ffc#-; 
known. This cir^'"'’’L 
Alum munu wuiuii tiiu Aiuw Aiiu^iJ. xiiia '-** *V 
agrees with the facts of the fossil remains of the WF. jjv 
*iiiy ^ ^ 
rhinoceroses, w'hich appear to have differed materW‘j|.,j ' 
the 
living animals of the same genera. The 
elephants obtained from Essex, Middlesex, Kent, 
parts of England, confirm the observptlon of Cn'' 
■ . II . /• , • .1 , nllt*. I? 
tlie.se remains are generally found in the looser ‘’'Uy i.'t'J 
superficial parts of the earth, and most fre 
alluvia which fill the bottoms of the vallies, or "f 
der the beds of rivers. They are generally fointt* 
with the other bones «f quadrupeds of knov''''^dr 
such as those of the rhinoceros, ox, horse, I 
quently, also, with the remains of marine animtJ^' 
FOSSIL REMAINS OF THE MASTODO*^’ 
We now come to the examination of one of the P . jpt 
pendous animals Icnown, either in a recent er a 
■ ■ • -'nal 
(I 
and which, whether w'e contemplate its orign’'*' 'j,iit 
exi.stence, or the period at which it lived, cann® ^ 
our minds with astonishment. . ^ k|i. 
The first traces of this animal are sketched j 
from Dr. Mather, of Boston, to Di Woodward, 
..nd are transcribed from a work in manuscript, f|^| 
Biblia Jmaicana. In this work,, teeth and 
digious size, supposed to be liumau, are said to 
found in Albany, in New England. About the f ‘ 
nuraerous”similar bones were found in Kentucky-’ 
Ohio, and dispersed among lire European fh'tuosj^^ j,i , 
Many hones of this animal were found, in ^ I'j. 
plain, bounded 
he vicinity of 
Slate of New York, in a large 
side by immense mountains, in tlie vicinity 
situated on the Hudson, or North River. 1 h®® 
are also found on tlie side of the tliree 
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