466 TEETH OF MASTODON. 



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Teeth of the Mastodon. — I have great pleasure in sending 

 you a cast from the molar in my possession, which I imagine 

 to belong to Cuvier's species of the narrow -toothed Mastodon. 

 I have had the cast painted as nearly as possible to the color 

 of the original, which is, as you will see, nearly perfect, and 

 weighs three pounds and three quarters, good weight ; it was 

 dredged up off Easton Cliff, Suffolk, in June, 1839, between 

 two and three miles from land. 



The half of a molar of a Mastodon, which was found last 

 year on the beach at Sizewell, and is in my collection, had 

 every appearance of the crag adhering to it, which, with the 

 beautiful dark Vandyke colour of these two fossils, the pecu- 

 liar characteristic of crag osseous remains, — induces me, since 

 my conversation with you on this subject, to adopt your opin- 

 ion that these teeth were originally from the crag ; and in fur- 

 ther evidence, all the teeth, and fragments of teeth, of the 

 Mastodon, which have been found, are from the mammalifer- 

 ous or Norwich crag. 



Till within the last five years it was doubted whether the 

 remains of the Mastodon had been discovered in England ; I 

 therefore think it as well to state the order in which these 

 teeth have been found, and their number, as near as I can re- 

 member, and by whom discovered. One tooth, figured by 

 Dr. Wm. Smith, found at Whitlingham. One presented to 

 the Geological Society by the Rev. J. Gunn, found at Hors- 

 tead. A fragment found by the late Mr. Woodward, of 

 Norwich, at Bramerton. An interesting fragment found at 

 Bramerton, which I presented to the Norwich Museum. One 

 found by Mr. Fitch, in Thorpe pit, near Norwich. ■ Two others 

 found by myself at Bramerton. Two by Mr. Wigham, both, 

 I believe, from Postwick. A fragment found by myself at 

 Easton, now in the collection of the Geological Society. — 

 And one from Easton cliff, of which I send you a sketch, but 

 which I could not preserve owing to its rotten condition. — 

 This last was fixed in a large portion of the jaw ; and, with 

 the two marine ones in my cabinet, makes a total of thirteen. 

 The tooth found by Mr. Fitch, and the two by Mr. Wigham, 

 are particularly interesting from their perfect condition ; and 

 the large marine one in my possession, although not quite 

 perfect, is a splendid specimen. — H. Alexander. — Southwold, 

 Juhj 19th, 1839. 



1 A second very perfect tooth has lately been obtained by Mr. Fitch, from 

 the crag, near Norwich. — Ed. 



