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indentation, forming a semicircle in the centre of the beaks. 
This beautiful specimen is a light drab-coloured limestone. 
Fig. 3, shews the hinge of “ terebratula pennata. 
o. 4, is a very beautiful specimen, and belongs toa new 
species at least, if not a new genus. It was found by my 
little daughter. It is not injured as most other specimens 
are, as its shell is almost perfect. The drawing shews its 
size. 
Fig. 5, a detached vertebra of an encrinite, though lar- 
ger, than described by Parkinson. This is composed o 
limestone, and the surface is beautifully and distinctly artic- 
ulated. Ihave many specimens of the encrinite ; some quite 
perfect. ; | 
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Notice respecting the teeth and bones of the Mammoth or 
Mastodon. 
Oct. 11, 1819.—The teeth of the mastodon in my pos- 
session, resemble those of carniverous animals more than 
any with which I am acquainted. hose found in this 
' state, vary in size, and are always found in alluvial earth, or 
in the beds of creeks. One of mine, were it not broken off, 
would weigh nine or ten pounds ; the weight of the other 
is given, as wellas its size. The latter, was found by a 
child, at play in a small rivulet, near the Pickaway plains ; 
the former was found in the bed of salt creek, twenty-two 
feet nine inches below the surfaee, by Judge Givens, of 
Jackson county, Ohio, while engaged in digging for salt wa- 
ter. Two or more ribs, several joints of the backbone, Xc. 
were found with it. Near this place several teeth of the 
mammoth belonging to different individuals, have been found 
at different times, some of them lying on the surface of the 
earth, and a few relics below it; the former, I should ratherSus- 
pect, were brought here, principally by the Indians, the latter 
lay in the place where the animals died. A large thigh bone 
Was lately found near this town in digging a mill-race. Sev- 
eral teeth of the mastodon have been found along the Scio- 
to river, on the southern beach of Lake Erie, and at Day- 
on on the Great Miami. Several bones helonging to this 
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