...light of a taper xxvir. VH™,, ii;'387. ' -Xi •• to that of the meridian sun. Those parts stitt remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored an'd...he be a carnivorous animal, as some anatomists have conje£lured, and the Indians affirm, his early retirement may be accounted for from the general destruction...

...and western parts of America, would he adding the light of a taper to that of the meridian sun. Those parts still remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored,...his bones. If he be a carnivorous animal, as some * XV.42. t I. 359. 1. 48. 221. 251. II. 52. $ II. 78. t 1.220. 1| XXVII. 63. XIV. 119. Harris, II....

...him sufficiently to make him mad; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio at a leap, then over the Wabash at another, the Illinois at a third,...affirm, his early retirement to deeper wilds, may be accounted for, from the great destruction of the wild game, by the Indians, which commenced the very...

...many centuries мисс. Mr. Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia, reasons thus : " It may be asked why I insert the mammoth as if it still existed ?...now as he did formerly, where we find his bones," &c. The same reasoning wkiich he used will apply, with a diminished force it is true, to our own times....

...Harris, IL 387. Buffon, Quad. IX. 1. be adding the light of a taper to that of the meridian sun. Those parts still remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored...conjectured, and the Indians affirm, his early retirement may be accounted for from the general destruction of the wild game by the Indians, which commences...

...and western parts of America, would be adding the light of a taper to that of the meridian sun. Those parts still remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored...conjectured, and the Indians affirm, his early retirement may be accounted for from the general destruction of the wild game by the Indians, which commences...

...and western parts of America, would be adding the light of a taper to that of the meridian sun. Those parts still remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored...conjectured, and the Indians affirm, his early retirement may be accounted for from the general destruction of the wild game by the Indians, which commences...

...parts "remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored and undisturbed by us," the mammoth "may still exist there now, as he did formerly where we find his bones." In a letter to Chastellux (June 7, 1785), Jefferson remarked further: "As to the degeneracy of the...

.... . " The northern and western parts of America still remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored by us or by others for us ; he may as well exist there now as he did formerly where we find his bones." This doctrine of the indestructibility of species was an accepted scientific dogma of Jefferson's time,...

...and western parts of America, would be adding the light of a taper to that of the meridian sun. Those parts still remain in their aboriginal state, unexplored...conjectured, and the Indians affirm, his early retirement may be accounted for from the general destruction of the wild game by the Indians, which commences...