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Buffon, also refers these remains to some large, unknown animal, with 
the tusks of the elephant and grinders of the hippopotamus. Buffon, 
Tome xm. Dr. W. Hunter, by whom these remains were examined, 
and who believed that they belonged to some carnivorous animal, had 
the satisfaction of comparing the half of a lower jaw of this animal 
with the jaw of an elephant, and found so great a difference, as con- 
vinced him “ that the supposed American elephant was an animal of 
another species, a pseud-elephant, or animal incognitum.’ ’ Presum- 
ing that the American bones were not elephantine, the Doctor con- 
cluded that the Siberian were of the same kind. Philos. Trans. Yol. 
lviii. The celebrated Camper, at first, concluded that this animal 
approached nearer to the elephant than to the hippopotamus ; and 
that it, in all probability, had a trunk, and therefore was not to be 
considered as carnivorous. But contemplating afterwards some frag- 
ments of the skull of this animal, in a wrong point of view, he changed 
his opinion ; and concluded, that this animal must have had a pointed 
muzzle and no tusks ; that it did not resemble the elephant ; and that 
he was unable to determine anything with respect to its real nature. 
Dr. Hunter, in the paper above referred to, published in 176S, ob- 
serves, that in the British Museum, and in private collections, he met 
with grinders of the incognitum that had been found in the Brazils and 
Lima, as well as in different parts of Europe. M. Buffon, in 177^, 
figured one of these teeth, which he had received from the Count de 
Vergennes, and which had been found in Little Tartary ; also another , 
which had been brought by the Abbe Chappe from Siberia. Epoques 
de la Nature, PI. 1. 11. et 111. — Pallas has also given the figure of a 
tooth of this animal, from the Oural Mountains. 
Many bones of this animal having been found, in 1799, in the State 
of New York, in the vicinity of Newburgh, which is situated on the 
Hudson, or North River, Mr. C. W. Peale, of Philadelphia, purchased 
these, with the right of digging for the remainder. In 1801, Messrs. 
Peale made every exertion to discover more of theseremains in the spot 
