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but without success.* As the place is thoroughly cultivated, 

 it is exceedingly doubtful if mere superficial examination would 

 disclose anything further, but it is quite possible that the sub- 

 soil may yet hide other parts of the skeleton. 



References and figures. Manuscript lists of articles in the 

 Halifax Mechanics' Institute, circa 1835, and June, 1839. 

 Dawson (Sir J. W.), Acadian Geology, 1st ed., 1855, pp. 

 57-58; 2nd ed., 1868, p. 83, with figure on p. 84; 3rd ed., 

 1878, do.; 4th ed. (Geology of Nova- Scotia, etc.), 1891, do. 

 Honeyman (Rev. D.), Giants and Pigmies, 1887, pp. 87-88. 

 Dawson (Sir J. W.), Handbook of Geology, 1889, p. 157. 

 McRae (Duncan), information in manuscript furnished by 

 him, February, 1912. 



Molar Tooth. 



Description. The tooth is a molar, probably a second one, 

 but I am not able to say whether it is from the right lower or 

 the left upper maxilla. It has three well defined transverse 

 "nipple ridges" on the crown, but with very inconspicuous 

 tubercles thereon, and no cement in the hollows of the enamel, 

 etc. The roots or "fangs" are two, the anterior one much 

 smaller than the posterior one. .In the latter, which has per- 

 haps been slightly broken or eroded at the apex, is the nerve 

 v.nd artery canal open at the apex of the root and bifurcating 

 at the inner extremity where it communicates with the pulp- 

 cavity. The enamel is jet black externally, and white within. 

 The black layer occupies from nearly nothing to about one- 

 quarter of the total thickness of the enamel. The dentine is 

 of cream colour. The tooth was in good preservation when found, 

 but unfortunately the finders undertook to investigate its struc- 

 ture with the aid of a blacksmith's hammer and vice, and so 



*D. J. Me Rae of Baddack. a relative of Alexander, says that in 1850 Admiral 

 Dundonald with his ship was in tho Bras d'Or. and having heard of the finding of the 

 Mastodon remains, went to Middle River with a number of his sailors, and that the 

 Admiral took away to England a broken " tooth " (tusk ?) which had been found there 

 but that it was afterwards returned to Nova Scotia. While this fixes the time o 

 Dundonald's visit, there can be little or no doubt that the tusk from Middle River was 

 taken from there prior to 1835. See remarks on the Tusk 



