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measures from forty-five to forty-six and one-half inches long, the 

 humerus from thirty-five to forty inches. The height of the 

 mounted skeleton is of little value as an indication of size, since 

 it depends so much upon the manner in which the skeleton is 

 mounted. The grinders of the mastodon have three cross ridges, 

 save the last, which has four, and a final elevation, or heel. This 

 does not apply to the teeth of very young animals. The presence 

 or absence of the last grinder will show whether or not the animal 

 is of full age and size, while the amount of wear indicates the 

 comparative age of the specimen. 



The skeleton of the " Warren Mastodon" is described at length 

 by Dr. J. C. Warren, in a quarto volume entitled <c Mastodon 

 Giganteus." There is much information in a little book by J. P. 

 MacLean, "Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man," but the reader 

 must not accept all its statements unhesitatingly. The first 

 volume, 1887, of the New Scribner's Magazine contains an 

 article on "American Elephant Myths," by Professor W. B. 

 Scott, but he is under an erroneous impression regarding the 

 size of the mastodon, and photographs of the Maya carvings 

 show that their resemblance to elephants has been exaggerated 

 in the wood cuts. The story of the Lenape Stone is told at length 

 by H. C. Mercer in " The Lenape Stone, or the Indian and the 

 Mammoth." 



The Much Discussed Lenape Stone, Reduced. 



