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Notices, SfC. 



Vol. VI. 



Notices. 



After an examination of the skeleton of the Mas- 

 todon at the Philadelphia Museum, we are prepared to 

 say, in justice to our correspondent at page 14i> of the 

 present number of the Cabinet, the vertebrie of the 

 spine are separated by blocks of wood precisely in the 

 manner in which Dr. Goddard has accused Mr. Koch of 

 having practised, to deceive spectators with regard to 

 the real length of the animal which Mr. K. has chosen 

 to call the Missourium Leviathan. Would the Dr. in- 

 form us if this addition to the Mastodon has been made 

 for the same sinister purpose ? The tusks of the Mas- 

 todon are ivory, as our correspondent describes them to 

 be — not so, those of the Missourium, as every one who 

 saw them can testify ; and are we correct in presuming 

 that space is wanting, as well as a proper process in 

 the Missourium for a trunk — the horns occupying a sit- 

 aalion which is quite incompatible with such a con- 

 formation. While on the spot, we employed ourself in 

 imagining any other direction in which the horns or 

 tusks of the Missourium could have been placed, but 

 were constrained to agree with our correspondent, that 

 " no other direction could have been given them than 

 that which they exhibit," to say nothing of Mr. Koch's 

 asseverations. We would therefore take leave to ask, 

 are not these distinctive differences sufficient to prove 

 that whatever else the animal might have been, it could 

 not have been a Mastodon ? 



We are indebted to several friends for specimens of 

 the finest vegetable productions, viz. — The Cooper 

 Corn, and a sample of Mediterranean Wlieat— which 

 we are also inclined to believe will be found to be the 

 "Tremois" of the French, a spring wheat which ripens 

 in three months from the time of sowing, and hence its 

 name — from Mr. Aaron Clement, of the Neck. Gourd- 

 seed Corn of gigantic size, from Mr. John Reybold, of 

 Delaware. A kind of Corn between the Gourd and 

 Flint varieties, numbering 26 rows and 135-2 grains on 

 one cob, from Mr. Homer Eachus, of Delaware county, 

 Penn. A remarkably productive kind of yellow Pota- 

 toe, superior to the Rohan, from Mr. Philip Reybold, 

 Jr., of Delaware; and a Turnip of the red round spe- 

 cies of Rutabaga, grown by Dr. Geo. Uhler, on his new 

 farm in Delaware, which surpasses, for beauty and size, 

 all others that we have seen. 



Mr. Vansant is informed, the Poudrette Company of 

 Philadelphia has not yet commenced business; many 

 arc the inquiries and great the expectations afloat on 

 this highly important branch of business: why need 

 Pennsylvania be behind the Eastern States in a niatter 

 so interwoven with her agricultural interests? In the 

 mean time, the article may be obtained of Mr. D. K. 

 Minor, Poudrette Company, New York, who would in- 

 form of terms, carriage, &c. 



Mr. S. C. Allen, of Decatur, Illinois, is informed, 

 the Straw and Hay Cutter sold by Slater, 3fl8, Market 

 Street, Philadelphia, is a most effective and powerful 

 instrument, capable of cutting the stoutest corn-stalks, 

 which, when soaked in a solution of salt and water, 

 are greedily devoured by all kinds of cattle. It is call- 

 ed " Slater's Improved Straw and Hay Cutter," has two 

 knives, and is propelled by hand or horse-power: price 

 $35. 



The scenery in our inimitable engraving of the " Old 

 English Black Horse," in the pre.sent number, is taken 

 from the county of Stafford, where these horses are 

 bred in great numbers. The small building with a 

 high chimney attached to the cottage is a general ap- 

 pendage in that country, where the male population 

 are engaged in mining coal and iron, and the females 

 in making nails — this being the female work shop, 

 where nothing is more common than for the daughters 

 to rise in the morning early enough to make a sufficient 

 quantity of nails before breakfast to carry to the gene- 

 ral store and exchange for articles to furnish out that 

 meal. 



A PORTION of our last month's edition was struck 

 off with the following error : it is stated that Mr. Ton- 

 kin received $1,500 for his two fat oxen which were 

 sold for exhibition— the price should be $3,500. The 

 portraits of his present fat stock, seven in number, are 

 in the hands of the painter, Mr. Woodside, and will 

 appear in our pages as they are made ready for en- 

 graving. 



The quantity of rain and melted snow which fcN 

 during Novetnber, (11th month,) was four inches and 

 two hundred and twenty-four thousandths of an inch : 

 nearly 4J inches. 



And the quantity which has fallen during the eleven 

 months of this year i.s a little more than fifty inchus. 



Pennsylvania Hospital, 12th mo. 1, 1841. 



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