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a branch of the Tennessee river. Carolina, bones, &c., in a 

 morass like the rest. (Jefferson's notes on Virginia.) 



Again, in Wythe Com«^?/, Virginia, at five feet below the sur^ 

 face, near a salt-lick, a large number of bones, almost an entire 

 skeleton, veas found, said to have been accompanied by a mass 

 of triturated branches, leaves, &c., enveloped in a sac, supposed 

 to be the stomach, not however correctly. (See Godman's Nat. 

 History.) Chester, Orange County, New York, in a peat bog, 

 four feet beneath the surface, many fine fragments. (Mitchell.) 

 On the York River some fine members of a skeleton were found, 

 in marsh mud, surrounded by roots of cypress trees. (Madison, 

 Medical Repository,) On the coast of Neiv Jersey, near Long 

 Branch, in a bog, almost an entire skeleton, in the natural erect 

 posture, the head hardly below the surface. (Cooper's Annals 

 of the Neiu York Lyceum.) In Kockland County, New York, 

 grinders three feet deep in mud. (Mitchell.) Near Baltimore, at 

 Fort M'Henry, in digging a well in the Star Fort, in a stratum 

 of marsh mud, nearly sixty feet below the surface, under a layer 

 of diluvium. (Hayden's Geol. Essays.) Remains of Mastodon 

 abound at the Salines (Licks) of Great Osage River to as great 

 an extent, it is said, as at Big Bone Lick, or ai'ound the Wal- 

 kill. (Godman.) 



Megatherium. Fragments of at least two skeletons in re- 

 cent marsh, Skidaway Island, Georgia. (Cooper.) 



Mecalonyx. a fragment of an arm or thigh-bone, a com- 

 plete radius, an ulna, three phalangal claw-bones, and some 

 bones of the feet, found about thirty feet below the surface of 

 the floor of a cavern in Green Briar County, Virginia. (Godman.) 

 Big Bone Lick has furnished a large humerus, a metacarpal 

 bone, a right lower maxillary bone with four teeth, a detached 

 molar tooth in good preservation, a clavicle, a tibia of the right 

 side. (Cooper.) Megalonyx bones have also been found in TFhite 

 Cave, Kentucky. 



Bos BOMBiFRONS : two hcads at Big Bone Lick. (Harlan's 

 Fauna Americana; Wistar's Trans. American Phil. Society.) 

 Bos Pallasii, Dekay : a head. Big Bone Lick, also New Ma- 

 drid, on the Mississippi, — closely resembles Bos moschatus. 

 Bos LATiFRONs (Harlau) : a portion of a skull, ten miles from 

 Big Bone Lick : Cuvier allies it to the Bos Urus of Europe. 



Cervus americanus (Fossil Elk) : two imperfect skulls. 

 Big Bone Lick {Cooper) . Horse: Big Bo7ie Lick (Cooper), 

 Neiv Jersey (Mitchell). The existence of the Horse pervious to 

 the occupancy of this country by the Europeans, is not well 

 established by the occurrence of its remains, though the evi- 

 dence is in favour of the opinion. Walrus : anterior portion 

 of the cranium, fossil, from Accomac County, Virginia. Not 



