. Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants : and the local agreement of history and tradition, with the remains of elephants and mastodontes, found in the New World ... . he supposed Mongols, of which these Researchestreat, and the other similitudes which it would betedious to repeat, but which will not fail to strike theattentive reader, who may be interested in this ques-tion—all conspire to prove the origin of them to be 264 ELEPHANTS LIKE THE SIBERIAN. [ derived from the
. Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants : and the local agreement of history and tradition, with the remains of elephants and mastodontes, found in the New World ... . he supposed Mongols, of which these Researchestreat, and the other similitudes which it would betedious to repeat, but which will not fail to strike theattentive reader, who may be interested in this ques-tion—all conspire to prove the origin of them to be 264 ELEPHANTS LIKE THE SIBERIAN. [ derived from the invaders, sent by the Chinese em-peror to subdue Japan: and as people of many Tar-tar nations may have been employed, it may accountfor some peculiar differences; in their cookery forinstance; as the Mongols in Tartars/, and the nativesof Tangut, which joins Assam and China, may be sup-posed to differ in such respects very considerably,although they agree in most of the religious observ-ances. Moreover, the Ohio Indians have a tradi-tion, that a herd of mammoths came to Bigbone-lick,and made an universal destruction of deer, elks, bears,and buffaloes; J\Ir» Jeffersons notes on Virginia, p. has probably been the scene of a Mongol hunt-ing party residing at .i*-
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