back to France with him the next year and donated them to the natural history museum in the Jardin des Plantes.

On March 13, 1750, Christopher Gist stopped at Big Bone Lick and wrote in his journal:

:"Wednesday 13. -- We set out...down the said River on the SE Side...I met two men belonging to Robert Smith at whose House I lodged...The said Robt. Smith had given me an order upon these men for two of the teeth of a large Beest, which they were

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