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with the right of digging for the remainder. In 1801, Messrs. Peale 

 made every exertion to discover more of these remains in the spot where 

 the former had heen found; but although neither labour nor expense 

 was spared, they were not rewarded by finding any of the more im- 

 portant and illustrative parts of the animal. Another attempt was then 

 made in a morass, about eleven miles from the former, where almost an 

 entire set of ribs was found, but nothing more. After this, they searched 

 a morass about twenty miles west from Hudson River; and here, after 

 a series of disappointments, arid slight successes, they found a right os 

 humerus, a radius and ulna of the left side, the right scapula, the atlas, 

 a complete under-jaw, and the great object of their pursuit, the upper 

 part of the head, which was however so rotten, that they could only pre- 

 serve the teeth and a few fragments. 



From the whole of the bones which they obtained, two skeletons were 

 formed, composed of the appropriate bones of the animal, or exact imi- 

 tations from the real bones in the same animal, or from those of the same 

 proportion in the other. Mr. R. Peale, who has given a description of 

 this animal, asserts, that there is one bone less in the neck of this animal 

 than in that of the elephant, never having met with a single bone resem- 

 tling a seventh vertebra of the neck. The dorsal vertebrae were sup- 

 posed to agree in number with those of the elephant; as nineteen of 

 these vertebrae and as many ribs were found, one in all probability having 

 been lost : three vertebrae were thus left for the loins. 



From the formation of the teeth, the disposition of the enamel, the inca- 

 pacity in th v e jaw for lateral motion, and from the condyloid process, which 

 is finished with an oblong head, being inserted into a transverse groove, 

 Mr. Peale concludes this must have been a carnivorous animal. The 

 teeth of the upper and lower jaws, when shut, he observes, must have had 

 their points and depressions fit into each other, like the teeth of two saws ; 

 and whilst shut must have been immoveable laterally, and consequently 

 incapable of triturating, like the teeth of graminivorous animals. 



The roots or fangs of the teeth, Mr. Peale observes, are inserted into 

 the mass of bone, which not only surrounds the roots, but divides one root 



