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Title: An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Winterbotham, William 1763-1829
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York : Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien, for John Reid
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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fpcc.es of animalsthr.t produced thole other folhl bones which hava been dilco-vercd in Tartary, Chili, and leveral other places, both of theold and new continent. What animal this is, and by \vh;>tmeans its ruins are found in regions lo widely different, andwhere none inch exifls at prcicut, is a qucftion of more difhcuitdccifion. The ignorant and kiperflit lous Tartars attribute thcnito a creature wliom thcv call M:iimon, who, they fay, ufualvrcfKies at the bottom of the rivcrs, and of whom thev relatemany marvellDUS florics : but as this is an allertion totally ti!vefl-ed of proof, and even of probability, it has jullly been rejedlcdbv the learned ; and on the other hand it is certain, that nofnch amphibious quadruped exifts in the American watcvi;.The bones themielves bear a great icicmblante to thole of theelephant. There is no other terreRrial animal now known largeenough 10 pnxluce them. The lulks with which tliey areboth fuiudlicdj equally produce true ivory. Thcic external
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OF KENTUCKY. 139 refcmblauces have generally made fupcificial oKfervcrs conclude,that thcv could belong to no other thin that quadruped ; andwlieii they firfl drew the attention of the world, philolopheisIcoin to have lublcribed to tlie lame opinion. But if fo, whenceis it tliat the whole fpecics has dilippeured from America ? An.animjl io L;borious and lo docile as the elcphaiit, that the induf-trv of the Peruvians (which reduced to leivitudc and iubjjftedto education fpecies lb vallly inferior in tliofe qudlitics, .;s theLlama and the Paca) could never have ovcruH)kcd, if he had beento be found in their countiy. Whence is it that tliefe bonesare found in climates where the elcph.-.nt, a n:iiive of the tornd.zone, cannot even lubfiit in his wild Rate, and in a ft;ite of fer-vitude will not propagate? Thtie are dillTiculties fuflicient toft.igger credidity itieli, and at lenglli produced llie inquiries ofDr. ilLinter. That celebrated anatoinift having procured Ipeci-mens from the Ohio

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