12 Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina, 
rocks; nor can the word rock be found in the descrip- 
tion of these plates by Judge Drayton. In fact, the 
Judge accurately describes the six figures referred to, 
and calls them by their proper names—BONES AND 
TEETH! And these bones and teeth the writer, notwith- 
standing, calls Phosphate Rocks! Besides, there is not 
a carnivorous tooth figured in the plate; all belong to 
herbivorous animals, as the Mammoth and the Masto- 
don. The teeth and bones of carnivorous animals, 
the Shark, Whale, Seal, Phocodons, Squalodons and 
Porpoise, so common in the Phosphate basins, and 
characteristic of the mother bed, are embedded (and 
not merely zztermingled) in the Phosphate rocks; 
whereas the teeth and bones of land animals are only 
intermingled with these nodulous masses. The re- 
mains of the first named animals belong to marine 
formations, as do the phosphatic nodules. The last 
named are from lacustrine or lake and river deposits. 
