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1 T h e discovery in 1 7 3 9 that led to Daubenton's paper is hailed in the annals of scientific history as the birth of American paleontology. In 1 8 2 1 , the great French naturalist Georges Cuvier credited the Indian hunters in Longueuil's army with discovering the first specimens of the "mammouth d'Amerique" to be studied in Eu- 1. Cuvier's mastodonte skeleton, above; mammoth/elephant skulls below. Mastodons and mammoths are often confused, especially since Cuvier named the American mastodon Mammut americanum, while Mammuthus refers to the mammoth genus.

But by summer of 1 7 6 6 , Croghan had escaped and set out to gather more fossil ivory tusks on the O h i o , as will be described later. 13 Besides ivory, however, there was another compelling reason for Abenaki hunters' interest in the strange remains in the marsh, hinted at in the early Huron legend of collecting "magic horns" from monsters. Stories about dreadful monsters would have influenced the men's reaction to the eerie sight of many gigantic skeletons emerging from the foul-smelling mire.

MARSH M O N S T E R S OF BIG B O N E L I C K 21 IROQUOIS AND WYANDOT KNOWLEDGE OF BIG BONE LICK In 1 7 6 6 , George Morgan accompanied the indomitable Irish trader George Croghan on his return to the salt licks on the O h i o , a year after the boatload of fossils and ivory had been sunk during the Indian attack described above. Morgan, age twenty-three, was the junior partner of a trading company in Philadelphia. ) In 1 7 6 6 , Croghan's party discovered the remains of at least thirty mastodon skeletons at the edge of a swamp.

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