An inglorious Columbus; . Valley^ (see Latrobes Rambler in Mexico, p. 145), andProfessor Newberry, some years ago, made the following state-ments on the subject: ®* We know that both these great monsters—the elephant andmastodon—continued to inhabit the interior of our continent longafter the glaciers had retreated beyond the upper lakes, andwhen the minutest details of surface topography were the sameas now. This is proved by the fact that we not infrequentlyfind them embedded in peat, in marshes which are still marshes,where they have been mired and suffocated. It is even claimedthat here, a
An inglorious Columbus; . Valley^ (see Latrobes Rambler in Mexico, p. 145), andProfessor Newberry, some years ago, made the following state-ments on the subject: ®* We know that both these great monsters—the elephant andmastodon—continued to inhabit the interior of our continent longafter the glaciers had retreated beyond the upper lakes, andwhen the minutest details of surface topography were the sameas now. This is proved by the fact that we not infrequentlyfind them embedded in peat, in marshes which are still marshes,where they have been mired and suffocated. It is even claimedthat here, as on the European Continent, man was a contemporaryof the mammoth, and that here, as there, he contributed largely MEXICAN PYEAMIDS. 609 to its final extinction. On this point, however, more and betterevidence than any yet obtained is necessary, before we can con-sider the contemporaneity of man and the elephant in Americaas proven. The wanting proof may be obtained to-morrow, butto-day we are without it. a?gSS^!?r-. FiG. 27.—Elephant-pipe, found in a field in loTca. Since the above vvas written, the lacking evidence seems tohave been obtained. There are in the possession of the Academy
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