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part of that skeleton ; but only more fully to illustrate the nature of the re- 
markable animal to which they belonged. I will add, that Judge Creagh 
informed me that the bones which he sent to Harlan, were found in 
different and distant places on his plantation, but described by Harlan as 
from one locality and belonging to one individual. ‘The fragments of a 
jaw-bone, containing teeth much broken, were found about three-fourths 
of a mile from the house. This was the specimen which Harlan took 
to London, and from which Owen named the animal. 
Judge Creagh was among the first settlers of Alabama, and he often 
told me of the large number of bones which were on his and the ad- 
joining plantations, when he first moved there, how they interfered with 
the tillage of the soil, and how vast numbers of them had been burned 
and otherwise destroyed; and he added that an old hunter who lived 
among the Indians prior to the settlement of that country by the whites, 
had often told him that he had seen several entire skeletons of this ani- 
mal, lying upon the surface of the ground, upwards of a hundred feet 
in length. 
. Zeuglodon Cetoides.—In addition to the foregoing remarks of Mr. 
Buckley, we take this opportunity of presenting an outline sketch of the 
head and one of the teeth of this animal, which were drawn for us by 
Mr. Russell Smith of Philadelphia, from the skeleton which has been 
fancifully called the Hydrarchos, by Koch. The head, as measured by 
t. Wyman,* is five feet seven inches long. ‘That part purporting 
Fig. 1. 
to be the cranium proper, and which serves more especially to protect 
the brain, consists apparently of a single bone and is destitute of any 
visible sutures, is alittle more than one foot long, about five inches 
" wide, and has, attached laterally by cement, two bones forming incom- 
plete zygomatic arches. Inferiorly it is so much covered with cement, 
that little or nothing can be seen of its surface. Posteriorly there are 
no condyles, nor any foramen for the passage of the spinal marrow ; in 
fact no foramina are any where visible. These characters lead to the 
* Proceedings of the Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., Nov. 1845, p. 65. 
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