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Alabama contained a few portions belonging to other individuals, among 
which are one or two vertebrae which were not numbered, and which 
“were never intended to be palmed. off as belonging to the skeleton. 
Also a few fragments of ribs already mentioned, and the tibia (?) figured 
by. Prof. Emmons, and described in the American Quarterly Journal of 
Agriculture and Science, vol. iii, p. 227. This specimen belongs to the 
first individual described in this note. However, no one would sup- 
pose but that it belonged to the skeleton at Albany, since the vertebral 
columns of the two individuals were nearly of the same size. The base 
of the lower jaw, plate 1, fig. 1., described by Dr. Emmons, p. 228 of the 
same volume, was obtained near the summit of the hard grey limestone 
bluff, about a mile from Suggsville, Clark Co., and about twenty-five miles 
_ distant from the Creagh plantation. This bone was imbedded upon the 
upper surface of the rock, and the outer surface of the bone was ex- 
posed and showed the yoked teeth with their large serratures in great 
perfection. It was upwards of three feet long. Owing to the hardness 
of the rock and brittleness of the bone, the specimen was often broken 
before detaching it with a large portion of rock, at the close of a toil- 
some day’s work. I obtained this specimen through the kindness of 
Dr. Denny, of - Suggsville, who informed me of its existence. It is 
proper to add that the skeleton at Albany has its own portions of the 
lower jaw, so that Prof. Emmons knew that it belonged to a different 
aael and has merely. described it as an _ interesting bone of the 
a: should a stated that before going to ‘Suggeville I visited anoth- 
er locality about a mile from Clarksville, on the road towards Macon, 
in Clark Co, This skeleton was in a sandy loam, and the bones were 
in a bad state of preservation, doubtless caused by the predominance. 
of sand and deficiency of lime in the soil. I only staid there part of a 
day, having met with several thin plates of bone belonging to the jaws; 
several cervical vertebree and fragments of ribs. The vertebrae and 
ribs were larger than those of the skeleton at Albany, and were all left 
on the spot excepting two fragments of ribs eight or ten inches long; 
which are with the skeleton at Albany. My object in visiting this local- 
ity was to obtain something approximating to a perfect head, and as 
soon as I saw it could not be done, the locality was abandoned. I be- 
lieve that a larger vertebral column than any yet obtained is still there. 
I saw a single vertebra of the zeuglodon, in possession of Mr. Cooper, 
a lawyer at Claiborne, which was eighteen inches om and twelve 
inches in diameter at the ends. 
_ From what I have written it will be seen that the bones which I have 
enumerated as not belonging to the individual skeleton in Albany, add 
not to its size, nor were they ever intended by me to be considered as 
