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of rain, and buried deep in the soil. They were not found together, but scattered at some distance from each other.  The two tusks were twenty feet apart. I had often heard of the elephant's bones at Burton, but never saw them; and I have no books to refer to.  I think I saw, in what is now called the National Museum at Paris, the very large bones of an elephant, which were found in North America: though it is certain that this enormous animal is never seen in its natural state, but in the countries under the torrid zone of the old world.  I have, since making this note, been told that the bones of the rhinoceros and hippopotamus have been found in America.

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