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about 43° of north latitude. These remains are also found on this side 
of the three great chains of mountains, the Aliganys, the North Moun- 
tains, and the Blue Mountains ; in the anterior parts of Pennsylvania 
and Carolina ; and in New Jersey, a few miles from Philadelphia. 
Among the more curious discoveries which have been made respect- 
ing this animal, is that which is related by Mr. Maddison, of a consi- 
derable quantity ol bones found in Virginia, near to Green Briar, 
where the bones of the megatherium were found. The discovery of 
these bones was accompanied with a circumstance particularly inter- 
esting. In the midst of them was found a mass of small branches, 
grass, and leaves ; and among the latter, some of a species of reed, 
which is at present common in Virginia. These were all half bruised, 
and appeared to be contained in a kind of bag, which was considered 
as the stomach of the animal : the contained substances were sup- 
posed to have been taken by the animal as food. 
The teeth brought from Peru by Dombey and M. de Humboldt, as 
well as that brought by the latter naturalist from Terra Firma, are, in 
the opinion of M. Cuvier, of a different species from the North American. 
He also suspects this to be the case with the teeth from Brazil and Lima, 
mentioned by Dr. Hunter ; and concludes, that these bones, so com- 
mon in South America, are very rarely found elsewhere. 
These bones are always found but at a little depth, and seldom 
appear to have changed their situations since the death of the animal. 
Mr. Barton relates two instances, where the soft parts of the animal 
appear to have been dug up ; and the Indians described one of the 
heads which were dug up in 1/62, as having over the mouth a long 
nose, which Mr. Barton supposes must have been the trunk. Kalm, 
speaking of a skeleton discovered by the savages of Illinois, says, that 
the form of a trunk was yet discoverable, although half decomposed. 
M. Cuvier informs us that there is at Paris a fragment, which, if the 
account of it be authentic, would make us doubt whether this species is 
really extinct. It is part of a foot, with five nails attached to it ; and 
