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A pre-historic mammoth hunt
Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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continuous or set-inrains for hunting the elephant, which gets bogged and sinks in from fifteen to eighteeninches in soft mud ; then even he, the strong one, feels it difficult to escape. — The LastJournals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, p. 143. 2 See Article XXXV., Sillimans Journal, May, 1875, by James D. Dana; which is de-voted to a discussion of this case. Professor Dana considers Kochs statement verydoubtful, but his doubt is evidently as to Kochs truthfulness and character, and not asto any inherent improbability in such a discovery, as he says, it is to be hoped that thegeologists of the Missouri Geological Survey now in progress will succeed in settling thequestion positively. And on the essential point which alone gives the story any impor-tance, he adds : The contemporaneity claimed will probably be shown to be true forNorth America by future discoveries, if not alread3^ established ; for Man existed in Eu-rope long before the extinction of the American mastodon.
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