Cotton Mather wrote the Royal Society that Mastodon bones at Claverack (on the Hudson River) provided evidence of a race of "antediluvian GIANTS" who walked with their heads in the clouds, called "Nephilim" in the Jewish tradition.
[Source: Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. p.163]
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