214 FAUNA AMERICANA* 



ciipy the alveolar border, and which is sometimes 

 truncated to such a degree, as to represent only a 

 cuneiform substance of ivory, surrounded by fes- 

 tooned enamel. 



Locality. The teeth of this animal have been 

 found, first at Simore (Gers) in a sandy rock or 

 in sand ; they are coloured with iron, and become 

 blue when burned. They are known by the name 

 of Western turquoises. They are still met with 

 at Sorde, near to Dax, (Landes) in diluvial stratse. 

 At Trevoux, (Cote-d'or) in sand ; at Santa Fe de 

 Bogota, at a place called the " Field of Giants,^'' 

 at an elevation of one thousand three hundred 

 toises above the level of the sea. On Mount Fol- 

 lonico, near to Mount Pulciano, in the Val d'Arno, 

 in Piemont ; and lastly, the specimen before us, 

 was found in Club-foot canal, connecting New- 

 bern to Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina. 



This tooth is in the cabinet of Mr. Wagner, of 

 Philadelphia. 



An immense number of fossil bones were dis- 

 interred many years ago at Big-bone-lick, by Dr. 

 Goforfh, for an account of which, Vid. " Cramer's 

 Navigator," eighth edition, 1814, append, p. 260. 



Amons these bones the author notices the 

 " paw of an unknown animal of a size sufficient 

 to fill a flour barrel ; it had four claws, and w^hen 

 the bones were regularly placed together, mea- 

 sured from the os calcis to the end of either mid- 

 dle claw, five feet two inches. 



