ever been visited by any Shoshone.

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Note 2. Skeletons of the mammoth are often found whole at the foot of
the Grand Serpent, a long rugged mountain which runs for 360 miles under
the parallel of 40 degrees north latitude. It extends from the centre
of the Shoshone territory to the very country of the Crows, that is to
say, from the 119th to the 113th degree west longitude. It is possible
that this race may not have been yet quite extinct in the middle of the
17th century; for, indeed, in their family records, aged warriors will
often speak of awful encounters, in which their great-great-grandfathers
had fought against the monster. Some of them have still in their
possession, among other trophies of days gone by, teeth and bones highly
polished, which belong indubitably to this animal, of which so little is
known. Mr Ross Cox, in the relation of his travels across the Rocky
Mountains, says, "that the Upper Crees, a tribe who inhabit the country
in the vicinity of the Athabasca river, have a curious tradition with
respect to these animals. They allege, `that these animals were of
frightful magnitude, that they formerly lived in the plains, a great
distance in the south, where they had destroyed all the game, after
which they retired to the mountains. They killed every thing, and if
their agility had been equal to size and ferocity, they would have
destroyed all the Indians. One man asserted, that his great-grandfather
told him he saw one of those animals in a mountain-pass, where he was
hunting, and that on hearing its roar, which he compared to loud
thunder, the sight almost left his eyes, and his heart became as small
as that of a child's.'"

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Note 3. A few miles from the Pacific Ocean, and at the foot of a
mountain called by the Shoshones the Dwelling of the Monster, were found
the remains of an immense lizard belonging to an extinct family of the
saurian species. Within a few inches of the surface, and buried in a
bed of shells and petrified fish, our old missionary, Padre Antonio,
digged up fifty-one vertebrae quite whole and well preserved. They were
mostly from twelve to eighteen inches in length and from eight to
fourteen inches in diameter, measuring in all more than fifteen feet in
length. Of the tail and neck but few vertebrae were found but there
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