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were discovered in a bed of clay, occupying a ridge in the pine 

 forest. They occurred over an irregular area of one hundred feet 

 long by thirty feet wide, and were dug from variable depths 

 of seven feet to the bed-rock, the character of which is not 

 stated. The fossils, consisting of bones and a few teeth, are 

 mostly in fragments, but exhibit no appearance of being water- 

 worn, or abraded by friction among gravel. In the collection, 

 for the present hastily examined, there may be observed the fol- 

 lowing more conspicuous remains : — 



1. Those of a young mastodon, consisting of bone fragments 

 and detached epiphyses. The epiphysial head of a femur meas- 

 ures 6^ inches in diameter. In the clay adherent to the rough 

 under surface, the vertebra of a teleost fish is imbedded. An 

 astragalus measures i^ inches fore and aft, and 5i inches trans- 

 versely. 



2. Remains, apparently of several individuals of a rhinoceros, 

 rather smaller than the Indian rhinoceros. Among them are 

 small fragments of a mandible, and portions of lower molar teeth. 

 The nearly complete crown of one of the latter measures 2^ 

 inches fore and aft, with 1| inches width in front. The limb 

 bones indicate an animal of shorter stature, but equallj^ robust 

 proportions to those of the Indian rhinoceros. There are two 

 nearly entire radii, 9 inches long, by 3^ inches width at the prox- 

 imal, and 3| inches width at the distal end. The distal exti'emity 

 of a femur measures (i inches at the epicondyles. The head of a 

 tibia is 5^ inches wide and 3j inches fore and aft. A calcaneum 

 is 5 inches long. Three middle metacarpels exhibit the following 

 measurements : — 



Length, ... 4^ inches, 4 inches, 3| inches. 

 Width, proximal end, 2| " 2^ " 2| " 

 Width, distal end, . 2^ " 2i " 2| " 



3. Small fragments of the maxillae of a tapir; one with an 

 entire molar tooth, which differs neither in form nor size from the 

 corresponding tooth of the living Tapirus aviericanus. The 

 tooth measures 11 lines fore and aft by 13 lines transversely. 



4. Remains, apparently of a llama, as large as the camel. 

 The distal end of a metacarpel is about 4 inches in breadth. A 

 first phalanx is 4^ inches long by 2^ inches wide at the proximal 

 end and 1| inches at the distal end. 



5. A calcaneum of a ruminant, not quite so long as that of the 

 Irish elk, but of more robust proportions. Its reference is un- 

 certain, and it is doubtful whether it pertains to the extinct 

 Cervus americanus. 



6. The vertebral centrum of a small crocodile. 



T. Remains of several other animals undetermined. 



