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reverse of the natural one. Until very recently, I knew 
the present early and striking evidence of a British Masto- 
don only by Mr. Smith’s beautiful engraving of it ; he, 
Fig. 97. 
Last upper molar, Mastodon angustidens, Fluyio-marine Crag, Norfolk. } nat. 
size. 
however, makes no mention of the specimen in his work, 
nor gives any reference to the locality from which it had 
been obtained. Indeed, it seems to have produced little 
impression upon the contemporary labourers in his domain 
of science, and to have been regarded as apocryphal by 
some sound geologists of that period. 
Mr. Bakewell, in his Memoir ‘On the Fossil Re- 
mains of large Mammalia, found in Norfolk,’* under 
the head Mastodon, says, ‘The remains of this animal 
have not hitherto been discovered in any part of Eng- 
land, except in the county of Norfolk, and even there 
I think their occurrence at present problematical ;” adding, 
“'The tooth of the supposed Mastodon, described by Mr. 
William Smith, I have never seen.” No reference to such 
description is given by Mr. Bakewell, and I presume the 
remark refers to the figure above cited. Mr. 8. Wood- 
ward, however, affirms that ‘‘ The large grinder figured by 
* © Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History,’ vol. ix (1836). 
