662 QUADRUPEDS. 



which were near seven feet long, and one foot six or eight inches 

 in circumference at the base. Dr. Barton and Dr. Wislar, of 

 Philadelphia, have in their possession the lower jaw almost entire, 

 with two teeth on either side, in particular, that of the former 

 has five and three points, all quite double ; but no one had the 

 entire head. 



The state of New York (in the environs of the beautiful river 

 Hudson) has of late years been the theatre of discoveries of the 

 fossil bones, apparently of the same animal, a greater quantity of 

 them having been found there than any where else. In 1800, by 

 digging in the low and marshy places of the counties of Orange 

 and Ulster, at three, four, and five feet deep, parts, which had 

 never before been discovered, were found. Some bones, ten feet 

 deep in the earth, were as sound and entire as those which had 

 been met with nearer the surface. Some, however, were found 

 broken, particularly those of the head. 



In another place, eight miles from the city of New York, an 

 upper juw bone was found perforated to receive a tusk like that of 

 an elephant; the connection of the tusks was by gomphosis ; the 

 tusks were evidently of ivory ; the openings for the nostr.ls were 

 eight inches in diameter ; and notwithstanding that the bones of 

 the feet afford reason to conclude that the animal had claws, it is 

 scarcely possible to avoid thinking, from the structure of the 

 head, that it was a species of elephant. Some hair has even been 

 found, three inches in length and of a dark colour, which is said 

 to have belonged to this monstrous quadruped, and seems very 

 considerably to assimilate it to the mammoth of Siberia ; though M. 

 Cuvier inclines to believe that the two animals constituted different 

 genera, the tusks of the Siberian animal exhibiting more of a 

 genuine elephant or ivory structure, and less sharpness in its 

 grinders. 



In the year 1801, Mr. William Peale, proprietor of the museum 

 at Philadelphia, succeeded in obtaining a skeleton so nearly com- 

 plete, as by the addition of one or two defective bones, obtained 

 from the fossile remains of other animals of the same kind, to 

 Tender it perfect. This skeleton was brought over to England by 

 the son of the discoverer, and publicly exhibited in 1803; the 

 writer of the present article examined it minutely, and from actual 

 measurement, and the information of the proprietor, is able to 

 give the following detail. The skeleton was dug up in a morass in 



