hope and with the desire, if they are not what I have 
them to be, that some one better acquainted with the subject may 
aid in determining the animals to which they once belonged. 
‘The remains were found by Mr. Ewing Young, in December, 
1839, on the Walhammet or Multnomah river, a tributary of the 
Columbia, in latitude 44° N. “They were,” to use his own 
words, “about twelve feet under the earth.” Among them I 
find a part of the tusk, an upper second, and a lower third molar 
of the fossil elephant, one of the torial bones of the fossil ox, 
which I should judge, comparing this bone with the correspond- 
ing one of an ox weighing over eight hundred pounds, could not 
have weighed less than fourteen or sixteen hundred pounds, be~ 
sides several fragments of the shafts of bones, which I am una- 
ble at present to determine. But the greatest interest attaches 
to the tooth and large fragments which I am now about to de- 
Bae ont es j , : H 
- The tooth to which I refer, as you will see by Fig. 1, is pris- 
matic, fluted, and quadrangular. Its length is two inches and 
nine tenths, its breadth at the widest part, from a to 5, six eighths 
of an inch ; the outside of the tooth resembles fine ivory. With- 
in this is the bony or coarse ivory. ae looking at the crown 
Vol. xxu1, No. 1.—Oct.—Dee. 1841. 
