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root from the other ; whereas, in the elephant, the grinders occupy one 
large and uniform cavity, from which they are gradually protruded. 
The only instance of hair, Mr. Peale says, being found with the 
remains of this animal, occurred in a morass belonging to Mr. A. 
Colden. The hair was coarse, long, and brown ; a large mass of it 
was found together, but so rotten, that, after a few days exposure to 
the air, it fell into a powder*. 
The country in which these remains are found is like an immense 
plain, bounded on every side by immense mountains. On digging into 
the morasses where these bones are found, the following strata are 
generally met with : one or two feet of peat, one or two feet of yellow 
marie , with vegetable remains ; about two feet of grey marie, like ashes ; 
and, finally, a bed of shell-marle. It is in the grey marie that the bones 
are chiefly found. This marie is found to contain seventy-three parts 
in the hundred of lime, and when dry will burn for a long time with 
a bright flame. In the neighbourhood of these morasses are found an 
infinite number of petrifactions of marine bodies, echinites, corallites, 
&c. one of which I had occasion to speak of in the preceding volume. 
From the accounts of Dr. Barton, General Collard, Mr. Smith Barton, 
Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Dunbar, and others, it appears that considerable 
quantities of these remains have been found in different parts, in the 
neighbourhood of the Ohio, of the Mississippi, and of the Missouri. 
They have not, however, been yet found higher than the Lake Erie, in 
* An account has been given of the discovery of the remains of a mammoth, on the shores of 
the Frozen Sea, with its flesh, skin, and hair, in good preservation. This account, written by 
M. Michael Adams, of Petersburgh, was kindly communicated by Sir Joseph Banks to Mr. 
Ti'lloch, by whom it was published, in the Philosophical Magazine, Vol. xxix. p. 141. This dis- 
covery excited a considerable degree of attention, which was, however, by many, misdirected ; 
since they should rather have regarded this animal as, perhaps, one of the lost species of ele- 
phants, than as a mammoth or mastodon. That it could not have been one of this latter genus 
is evident, from the account of M. Adams himself, who says, “ The mammoth in my possession 
is quite different from that found near New York, which, from the description, had carnivorous 
teeth.” M. Adams concurring with the Russians, in giving the name of mammoth to the ele- 
phants found imbedded in those parts. 
