Query Vl

carnivorous, and ftill exifts in the northern parts of America. A delegation of warriors from the Delaware tribe having vifited the governor of Virginia, during the revolution, on matters of bufinefs, after thefe had been difcufled and fettled in council, the governor alked them fome queftions relative to their country, and among others^ what they knew or had heard of the animal whofe bones were found at the Salthcks on the Ohio. Their chief fpeaker immediately put himfelf into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp fuited to what he conceived the elevation of his fubjeft, informed him that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, *^ That in ancient times a herd of thefe tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an univerfal deftruftion of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the ufe of the Indians : that the Great Man above, looking down and feeing this, was fo enraged, that he feized his lightning, defcended on the earth, feated himfelf on C So ] a neighbouring mountain, on a rock of which his feat and the print of his feet are ftill to be feen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were flaughtered, ex- cept the big