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species, of birds, and in particular of various kinds of 

 quadrupeds. 



A part of a jaw, with a tooth, of what is supposed to 

 have belonged to the spermaceti whale has been found 

 in Monmouth county, (New Jersey,) in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sandy Hook, in an extensive deposite of marine 

 shells : and doubtless many more have already, or will 

 be found in various parts of the alluvial district in 

 New Jersey, and also in Delaware. 



In Maryland, upon the eastern, and some parts of 

 the western shore, there have been found the skeletons 

 of whales, sharks, porpoises, and other large fish ; as 

 also terrapins, and almost incredible quantities of fos- 

 sil shells of various kinds, many of which are unknown 

 to exist at the present day. 



These substances, with great numbers of the teeth of 

 sharks and those of other fishes of various sizes, are 

 sometimes dug up in the marie or shell pits, but more 

 frequently washed out of the banks of rivers, at low 

 water, and are exposed on the shores. Sharks teeth 

 are found at St. Mary's (Maryland) three inches 

 in length, some of which may be seen at Mr. Peale's 

 museum. 



At Choptank, a species of very large scollops, re- 

 sembling the Pectens Magnus, subrufus, of Lister, are 

 washed out of the banks, with barnacles of an extraordin- 

 ary size attached to^hem, and which may likewise be 

 seen in Mr. Peale's museum (Baltimore.) In Virginia 

 also the carcasses of whales, of sharks of a great 



