282 Messrs. Jackson and Alger on the 
from hunger, if the latter, perhaps by a more sudden extermina- 
tion, like those mentioned by Professor Buckland. Had the bones 
referred to been found without the arrows, which afforded 
too true a history of their origin and the character of the lost 
individual to lead to further inquiry on the subject, it is probable 
that the discovery would have led to the thorough examination of 
the caves in search of other remains; and thus perhaps new facts 
might have been contributed to science, instead of which the caves, 
as we were told, are now covered with rubbish. It is a fact that the 
remains of animals whose living types are now unknown, have 
been found on Cape Breton, near the Wagamatcook River, where, 
we are told by Mr. Halliburton,* an enormous skull has been 
found, with molar teeth measuring eight inches by four across 
the crown or grinding surface, which is furrowed or divided into 
two rows of processes ten in number; a peculiarity in their struc- 
ture which proves them not to have belonged to a carnivorous 
animal, and tends obviously to identify them with the grinders of 
the mammoth or fossil elephant discovered by our naturalists in 
South Carolina and Kentucky. The spot however we have, as yet, 
been unable to visit; but it certainly merits attention, in order, 
to discover, if possible, the remaining parts of the skeleton ; a rel- 
ic too valuable to science to remain only partially exhumed, 
since it may disclose to us the huge proportions of an animal 
whose remains, common perhaps in some of the Middle and South- 
ern States, have never yet beenseen in any of the Northern, or in 
either of the Canadas, to our knowledge. 
On the banks of a small but romantic stream which empties 
itself into the St. Croix, called Montague River, a remarkably 
* History of Nova Scotia, Vol. II. p. 243. 
