126 Scientific Intelligence. 
Through the assistance of Judge Creagh, of Clark Co., Alabama, at 
a locality nearly three miles from his house, (I think southeast) I ob- 
tained a vertebral column fifty feet in length, commencing near the tail 
and extending towards the head. Judge Creagh had commenced dig: 
ging at the same place about three years before and found some twenty 
or twenty-five feet in length of the vertebral column. ‘These vertebrae 
at the locality extended in a line in their natural order, but owing to 
their exposed situation the processes were mostly broken off. After 
considerable search we struck the remaining portion of the vertebre, 
at a depth of about two feet, and traced them to a depth of six feet, 
extending into a side hill. Up to this point the vertebra lay in close 
connection, joining end to end, but here their connection was broken 
off, and owing to the difficulty of digging we ceased work, despairing 
of obtaining the remainder, which could probably have been secured at 
the expense of much time and labor. The tail of this individual lay 
imbedded in a rich bottom composed of black vegetable mould, and its 
head, without doubt, lay beneath the adjoining hill. The black soil was 
about eighteen inches deep; beneath this was a yellowish white marl 
to the depth of six feet, below which was a hard green sand marl in 
which the last bones we obtained at this locality were imbedded. These 
bones were numbered, and left in Judge Creagh’s door-yard at his re- 
quest, for the state collection of Alabama; as to ages fate since, I have 
not been informed. 
After a few donnie I returned to Judge Cialis 3 in 1842, who i ine 
fe me that a few years before, he had. gota few bones to send to 
Harlan, at Philadelphia, at a locality about three miles distant, and not 
far from the place where we obtained. those already mentioned. We 
went there chiefly to obtain a head or parts of one ; and ata depth 
of from one to three feet, we dug out a vertebral column commencing 
near ‘the lumbar region and extending towards the head, measuring 
twenty six feet in length. The vertebrae were often displaced, some- 
times one, two and three feet intervening between them, among which 
were scattered ribs which were in siiu, and were generally brokéa in 
the middle, the two opposite ends approaching each other. By carefully 
removing the earth from the upper surface of several of these, we found 
their length from measurement taken on the spot, to be from four to six 
feet. At the time we were digging, the ground was very wet from re- 
cent rains, and the ribs were so brittle that we succeeded in getting only 
a few fragments, not more than two or three of which are now wit 
the skeleton at Albany. The vertebre at this locality were large and 
in an excellent state of preservation, better than those I found at any 
other locality, and I now regret that I did not bring any of them aways 
since they were all left on the ground. While I was engaged here 
