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bony cores of their horns. The horns were missing, but 

 the bony enclosure very entire. 



Kentucky abounds with marine relicks. In my pos- 

 session is an echinus of the family galerite. It was found 

 fossil, and so charged with siliceous particles, as to be 

 insoluble in acids. I received several of them from Dr. 

 Samuel Brown, and Professor Woodhouse. They are 

 detached, and about the size of a middling acorn. 



In Indiana, bones of the like huge creature were found 

 July, 1817, in the east branch of the White river, a stream 

 emptying into the Wabash, at a point distant forty-four 

 miles in a right line from the mouth of the Wabash. 

 This east branch unites with the west branch, at a point 

 twenty-nine miles in a direct line from the mouth of the 

 White river. The intelligence was communicated to 

 me by- Josiah Meigs, Esq. commissioner of the general 

 land office, in the treasury department of the United 

 States, who received it from Mr. Spotts, living near 

 the falls of East Branch. These consisted, it is stated, 

 among others, of the upper jaw, whose width from out- 

 side to outside, was 20 | inches ; length 25 inches ; length 

 of the posterior grinder, (composed of 5 divisions in 3 

 rows) 7 inches ; breadth of the same across, 5 J. 



The accounts published of similar remains of mam- 

 moths, found near Bedford, in Pennsylvania, belong to 

 this place ; because they show that these animals inhabit- 

 ed the land after the sea had retired, and it had become 

 a fit abode for terrestrial quadrupeds. 



The celebrated tusk found at Chenanga, in New- York, 

 near the point where the Susquehannah passes into Penn- 

 sylvania, evidently belonged to an animal of the same 



