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joint of the back bone that he brought away. The 

 teeth weigh sixteen ounces each. They are covered 

 with an ash-coloured enamel, except at the roots where 

 they were fastened in the jaws. Their figure is trian- 

 gular, the sides towards the apex measuring six inches 

 each, and the base four inches and a half across. The 

 joint of the back is not cartilaginous, but actually bony. 

 It is in some degree petrified, and weighs twelve pounds 

 and a half. It, in all likelihood, belonged to a shark or 

 a sea-serpent. 



The Rev. James Hall, a missionary from the general 

 assembly of the presbyterian church and the synod of 

 the Carolinas, to the Mississippi territory, published at 

 Salsbury, in North Carolina, a short account of the more 

 memorable observations he made during his journey. 

 He affirms, that abed of clam and oyster-shells, as fair as 

 ever lay on the shore of the Atlantic, is to be seen in 

 an old field in the Ghicasaw country (p. 58). In the 

 Mississippi territory he saw freestone, and a yellow cal- 

 carious earth, which is apparently a concretion of shells. 

 He observes, that it burns into good lime, and that the 

 land is destitute of stones. 



South Carolina. 



Very remarkable organic remains have been disco* 

 vered in South Carolina. I refer with pleasure to Go- 

 vernor John Drayton's View of that State as respects her 

 natural and civil concerns, for the full description illus- 

 trated by an engraving of the teeth and bones of elephan- 

 tine animals, dug out of Biggin swamp, in 1T94, by Colo- 

 nel Senf, near the head of the West Branch of Cooper 

 river, about eight or nine feet under ground ; as also for 

 the distinct account he has given of the stratum of enor- 



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