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horses measure ? of an inch. This would make the original length of 
the tooth more tha four inches. The size of the tooth in other direc- 
tions was about proportional. Now as these measurements go far over 
those for our largest horses, they would seem to indicate a fossil horse larger 
than those of the present epoch; whereas Cuvier says that all the bones 
of horses seen by him, indicated the former existence of small horses, 
( Ossemens Fossiles, 3d edition, Vol. II. pp. 112, 113.) This fossil is ren- 
dered interesting, as the remains of the horse are but seldom found fossil 
in America. 
The enamel of all these teeth is in a good state of preservation; the 
internal or bony parts have a peculiar ferruginous color, a little deeper 
than that of the sandy clay in which they were found; they are very fra- 
gile. The large mastodon’s tooth and that of the horse were found im- 
mediately together, at a considerable depth (several feet) beneath the 
original surface 
These fossils came from a ighborhood which abound in those 
of the mastodon. A molar was 1s found about six or seven miles from the 
same place, several years since, weighing 13 pounds. It was sent to Eng- 
land by the person who obtained it. 
Those lately found are in my charge, deposited in the cabinet of the 
College of Louisiana. 
