The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-02-08


nal des Debats on which penfions 90 the amonn, Of
fix hundred hvres have been granted, becaufe il has
fuch comfortable fae-Were this not the cafe, it
would feveral times have been fuppreHed. Its exit
ecee isto ceare with the new organization In order
the impending ltorm, the Able Godfrey, has
fnc- the goth McGidor, afumed the title Of Journal
de rEnpire, aud aatters mot grofly The Pub
leitte. and the Journal de Commerce, will probably
be fnflered to continue.
Whether the Argus and the Memorial Anti Brit
ranqne, edited by Barr.re, which has very few
ders, and has hitherto been Imported by the govern
mens, will be continued, appears very uncertain.
Lesd. Pde.
Ex.raa ofa letter from geatir'nan, dated
Hy.be, Virg. Dee. 27, 1906.
"Icannot omit amui"g YOU, with fome j.
TENS of late difcovery in this county. About
two miles eat of Geo. Wamplers, an attempt
was made, to fink pit, to- fearch for iat wa
ter. A few feet below the ftirface, have been
found feveral bones If the mammoth of an nm
nr,ly large iize. Oue tooth ~ faid To weigh
lib. and proves it to be creature that fed on
hcrbags. With thefe bones are intrrmixed 4
number ofthat of an animal oil the lar:ca fpe-
cies ofthe carnivorous kind alto number of
bones of Young or fmalier mammoths I; and one
might conjecture from appearances, that thefe
Carcafes have not been more than one hundred
years depofted in the earth. Entire pieces OF
reeds fix inches long, s. twi2s of the pine tree,
are found in large bed of dung, fuppofed to
have been in the intefines of the mammoth,
when it was killed. Our acquaintance, the
Rev. Mr.. SIonger, is bufy in good weather, in
having full fearch made, for the whole kcle-
ton, which if he fucceeds, it probably will give
further information concerning the nature and
properties Of a fpecirs of animals now extinct"
Estra9 Of another letter from tie same gentle
man dated,
WrTHE, Jan. 4tb, 1906.
SIR,
! wrote you in hate about two weeks ago
This day i went to the fpot where the Nam.
moth bones are found, and with my own ewes
fatisfsd my own curiofty. The teeth, or IA.
ther the grinders are larger than thofe have
Teen, that were found at Campbell's Saline on
Holfteir, or even thofe at the Big-bone Lick in
kentucky; thefe grinders and the fnbtano es
that appear TO have been in the entrails. prove
that this monner of the foreh has been A creature
that fed on herbase. But the iineular appea-
rance OF this new Lick, and the variety of large
hones already dug up, proves, that part of
Them belonged to large animals OF carnivorous
nfpecies. A large TUX or horn has been found,
inherited in the head or rather upper Jaw, about
two feet long, and eight inches in circumfer-
F, ence. There have been feven under Jaw bones
already found of this latter animal, as MIR.
Eiichal k'Dfar informs, on whole land this Curl
Gus depolit is found; by the fhapc of the horn,
and it's place 70 near the nofe, the fmaler animal
n,ay have been a fpecies of the Rhinoceros, ore
kind Of which is faid to he the Unicorn of the
ancients. But how 60 many of them have been
laid proitrate on the fame fpot with the Nam.
moth, and of thofr by the teeth found, there
mutt have been fryeral, makes the whole mat.
ter of fome admiration. BiA,op Midifon will
be diflPPoirtsd in getting an entire Releton :
the bones, at leaf several of them after having
been eypoic5 'everal days in the open air become
10y t-;.sis. oo. eLe- ~e...-r e-anl.. 49,. %,
r'cd on IL verat; thc teeth, particularly the grin
dsrs OF the Manmo.h, are in good fiate of
preiervation, and may bear transportation any
where.