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reverse of the natural one. Until very recently, I knew 

 the present early and striking evidence of a British Masto- 

 don only by Mr. Smith's beautiful engraving of it ; he, 



Fig. 97. 



Last upper molar, Mastodon angustidetis, Fluvio-marine Crag, Norfolk. ^ nat. 



size. 



however, makes no mention of the specimen in his work, 

 nor gives any reference to the locality from which it had 

 been obtained. Indeed, it seems to have produced little 

 impression upon the contemporary labourers in his domain 

 of science, and to have been regarded as apocryphal by 

 some sound geologists of that period. 



Mr. Bakewell, in his Memoir ' On the Fossil Re- 

 mains of large Mammalia, found in Norfolk, 1 * under 

 the head Mastodon, says, " The remains of this animal 

 have not hitherto been discovered in any part of Eng- 

 land, except in the county of Norfolk, and even there 

 I think their occurrence at present problematical ;" adding, 

 " The tooth of the supposed Mastodon, described by Mr. 

 William Smith, I have never seen." No reference to such 

 description is given by Mr. Bakewell, and I presume the 

 remark refers to the figure above cited. Mr. S. Wood- 

 ward, however, affirms that " The large grinder figured by 



* ' London's Magazine of Natural History,' vol. ix (1836). 



