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The bison, indeed, could not convert the forest into a pasture, but he would do much to prevent the pasture from becoming a forest. There is positive evidence that some of the American tribes possessed large herds of domesticated bisons. See Humboldt, Ansichten der Natur, i., pp. 71-73.
In consequence of facts that have escaped us she may well have furnished the first idea for the romantic legends whose echo has come down to our times. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 96; vol. ii. pp. 71-73. Besides the obelisk of Shalmaneser II., which is in a marvellous state of preservation, the British Museum possesses three other objects of the same kind.
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