Note 1668 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Wilson’s Prehist. Man, i. ch. 2; Proc. Amer. Acad. Nat. Sciences, July, 1859; Amer. Journal of Sci. and Arts, xxxvi. 199; cix. 335; Pop. Sci. Rev., xiv. 278; A. H. Worthen’s Geol. Survey, Illinois (1866), i. 38; Haven in Smithsonian Contrib., viii. 142; H. H. Howorth’s Mammoth and the Flood (Lond., 1887), p. 319; J. P. MacLean’s Mastodon, Mammoth and Man (Cincinnati, 1886). Cf. references under “Mammoth” and “Mastodon,” in Poole’s Index. Koch represented that he found the remains of a mastodon in Missouri, with the proofs about the relics that the animal had been slain by stone javelins and arrows (St. Louis Acad. of Sci. Trans., i. 62, 1857). The details have hardly been accepted on Koch’s word, since some doubtful traits of his character have been made known (Short, No. Amer. of Antiq., 116; Nadaillac, L’Amérique préhistorique, 37). There have been claims also advanced for a stone resembling a hatchet, found with such animals in the modified drift of Jersey Co., Illinois. E. L. Berthoud (Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad. Proc. 1872) has reported on human relics found with extinct animals in Wyoming and Colorado. Dr. Holmes (Ibid. July, 1859) had described pottery found with the bones of the megatherium. Lyell seems to have hesitated to associate man with the extinct animals in America, when the remains found at Natchez were shown to him in an early visit to America (Antiquity of Man, 237). Howorth, Mammoth and the Flood, 317, enumerates the later discoveries, some being found under recent conditions (Ibid. 278), and so recent that the trunk itself has been observed (p. 299). In the earliest instance of the bones being reported, Dr. Mather, communicating the fact to the Philosophical Trans. Roy. Soc. (1714), xxix. 63, says they were found in the Hudson River, and he supposed them the remains of a giant man, while the colored earth about the bones represented his rotted body. Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xii. 263.