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In 1806, Mr. Michael Adams, of Pe- 
tersburgh, hearing of the circumstance, 
repaired to the spot, where, having ar- 
rived, he found the skeleton entire, one 
of the fore feet excepted, though nearly 
Stripped ofits flesh. The vertebra, from 
the head to the os coccyyis, one of the 
shoulder blades, the pelvis, and the re- 
maining three extremities, were still held 
firmly together by the ligature of the 
joints and by strips of skin and flesh. 
The head was covered with a dry skin. 
One of thé ears, well preserved, was 
furnished with a tuft of bristles. These 
parts could not avoid receiving some in- 
jury, during their removal to Peters- 
burgh, a distance of 6875 miles; the 
eyes, however, are preserved. and the 
pupil of the left eye is still distinguish- 
able. The tip of the under lip was eaten 
away, and the upper being destroyed 
the teeth were exposed. The brain, which 
was still within the cranium, appeared 
dry. The parts least damaged, were 
one of the fore feet and one of the hind; 
these were still covered with skin, and 
had the sole attached to them. Ac- 
cording to the Tungoose chief the anima! 
was so corpulent and well fed, that its 
body hung down below the knee joints. 
Tt was a male, but had neither tail nor - 
trunk. From the structure of the os coc- 
cygis, however, Mr. Adams is persuaded 
that it had a thick short tail. Schou- 
machoff always persisted in asserting, 
that-he never saw any appearance of a 
proboscis; and it does not appear pro- 
bable, that his rude draughtsman would 
have omitted such a striking feature if 
there had been one. The skin (three- 
fourths of which is in the possession 
of Mr. Adams) was of a deep grey co- 
jour, and covered with reddish hair and 
black bristles. More than 40 lbs weight 
of them, that had been trodden into the 
ground by the bears, were collected, 
and many of them were 2 feet 4 inches 
jong. .The head weighs 460lhs.; the 
two horns, each of which is 94 feet long, 
weigh 400lbs.; and the entire animal 
measured 103 feet high, by 164 feet long. 
The tusks are curved in the direction 
opposite to those of the elephant, bending 
toward the body of the animal. Mr. 
Adams adds that he found a great quan- 
tity of amber on the shores. 
The following apparently. authentic 
particulars lately appeared inthe American 
Papers relative to the curious Phenomena 
of the fall of stones from the atmosphere. 
© On Monday morning the 14th Decem- 
ber, in the vicinity of Greenfield, several bo- 
dies of stone were discovered, which appeared 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
4 
{March 1, 
to have descended fromthe upper regions. See 
veral pieces of this ‘stone were shewn me by 
different persons, by whom the fact was so 
well attested as to make it impossitle altoge- 
ther to disbelieve it. But being resolved to 
get the best evidence of such an extraordinary 
occurrence, which the nature of the case 
would admit, I devoted this day, in company 
with the Rev. Mr. Holly, in visiting the dif- 
ferent places where the stones had fallen. 
Presuming it may affurd you some gratifica- 
tion to know the result of our enquiries, I 
take the liberty of minutely relating the facts 
we have collected. 
‘¢ The first place we visited is about three 
miles and a half in a north-easterly direction 
from my house, in a lot firmly covered with 
grass, about twenty-five rods irom the house 
of Elijah Seeley. The breach here made in 
the ground was about four feet diameter, and 
nearly the same depth, in a rather sloping di- 
rection, which was occasioned by the stone 
strikigz a shelly rock, and glancing. The 
rock on which the stone fell was much shat- 
tered, and the stone itself very much broken, 
the largest pieces weighing not more than six 
or eight pounds; the quantity altogether 
about a bushel. A quart or two of these 
fragments we gathered here; the greater part 
having been previously carried away by the 
inhabitants. By the fall and glancing of the 
stune, the dirt and sod were strewed for two 
or three rods round the breach, and several 
pieces of sod carried before the fragments to 
the lowest depth to which they sunk in the 
earth, and were removed by myself. Mr. 
Seeley and his wife say, that just after day- 
light they saw vivid flashes of light in rapid - 
‘succession for five or six seconds; and in 
about a minute afterwards it was followed with 
a dreadful explosion, somewhat resembling 
three cannons fired in quick succession, end- 
ing in a cracking rumbling noise; that about 
ten o’clock the same morning, going inte this 
lot, just.at the back of his house, to see after. 
his cattle, he discovered the breach in the 
ground above described, and conceiving it te 
have been ‘caused by something discharged” 
from above at the time he heard the explo- 
sion, he called ‘his wife out to witness the 
fact; and in the course of the day it was vi- 
sited by all the neighbourhood. Mr. Seeley 
and his wife are sober, discreet, and intelli- 
gent persons, implicijly to be relied on. 
‘<The next place we went to view was 
about four miles north-east from the first, in 
the court-yard of Mr. William Prince, .a re- 
spectable and wealthy farmer. The court- 
yard isa grass plac, smooth as a carpet, and 
firmly trodden. Here we founda hole, about 
the size of a post hole, two feet two inches in 
‘depth, from which had been taken, on the 
evening of the aforesaid Monday, a stone 
weighing thirty-five pounds, the texture and 
appearance of which resembled exactly the 
one which fell at Seeley’s. Myr. Prince and 
his wife, and sons (men grown), give the — 
same account of the flashes and explosion as 
