392 ’ Mammoth. 
Captain Mudge not having time’ to stay, left instruetions with 
M. Biot, who remained behind for the purpose of contemplating 
the aurora borealis, to have the fish preserved in spirits and sent 
up to London. We may therefore hope to obtain an opportunity 
of communicating a more detailed account of this very singular 
fish, which does not appear to have been described by any writer 
on Ichthyology. 
ANOTHER MAMMOTH: FOUND, 
Dr. Mitchill, of New-York, in a letter to Dr. Clinton, dated 
Chester, 27th May 1817, published in a New-York paper, an- 
nounces the discovery of the remains of a mammoth on the 
preceding day in the town of Goshen, Orange county, within 
sixty miles of New-York, in a meadow belonging to a Mr. Yel- 
verton, ‘The soil,” says Dr. M. ‘is a black vegetable mould, 
of an inflammable nature, and in reality a good kind of turf. It 
abounds with pine knots and tiunks, and was about thirty years 
ago covered with a grove of white pine-trees. The depth be- 
low the surface, where the bones lie, does not exceed six feet, 
There is reason to believe the whole osseous parts are here, as 
they can be felt by exploring-rods in various directions round the 
spot. It may be expected, that with due exeztion an entire 
skeleton can be procured, surpassing every thing of the sort that 
Ahe world has seen. 
‘* The region extending from Rochester along the Walkill to 
this place, is full of organic relics, The fossils indicate the for- 
mer dominion of the ocean; and many of them appertained to 
creatures not now known to be alive. The dimensions of the 
parts as given me by Drs. Seely and Townsend are as follow: , 
“Length of the tooth, Ginches. Breadth of the same, 32 
inches. Circumference of the lower jaw, including the tooth it 
contains, 26 inches. Length of the jaw, making allowance for 
some detrition, 35 inches. Breadth of the articulating surface of 
the lower extremity of the humerus, 12 inches. Breadth of the 
outer condyle of the same, 7 inches. Breadth of the inner con- 
dyle of the same, 5 inches, Depth from the anterior to the pos- 
terior part of this articulating surface, 10 inches. Length of the 
cavity of the os cranion,7 inches. Breadth of the same, 4 inches. 
Depth of the same, 24 inches. Length of the ulna, 32 inches. 
Circumference of the npper articulating surface of the ulna, 
32; inches. Circumference of the articulating surface of the 
lower extremity of the humerus, 35 inches,”’ 
DE LUC, THE GEOLOGIST. aie 
Died on the 7th inst. at his house in Windsor, after a painful 
-end lingering illness, which he endured with exemplary fortitudg, 
; : creat 
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