C. L. Hunter on Minerals, ete. in North Carolina. 373 
Dr. Warren mentions more or less fully and figures other Mas- 
todon skeletons found in the United States. Plates 16, 18, 19, are 
devoted to the Shawangunk head found at Scotchtown, Orange 
Go., New York, which is particularly described. The size of this 
head is not exceeded by that of any other hitherto discovered. 
Its greatest breadth is 31 inches, its vertical elevation 334 inghes 
and the length from the ridge of the occipital plane to the ex- 
tremity of the intermaxillary bones, is 48 inches 
The characteristics of some other species of Mastodon occupy 
Veral pages of the work; and the so-called T'etracaulodon is re- 
cognized as the male of Mastodon giganteus. 
_ The work closes with a dissertation on the food and snpposed 
discovery of hair of the M. giganteus, and on its geological situa- 
tion and causes of preservation. ‘The author states that of the five 
skeletons known at this time, three have been found in the fresh 
Water marshes of Orange Co., N. Y., a fourth in an interior mo- 
Tass in New Jersey, and the fifth near the banks of the Missouri, 
probably in a fresh water deposit. Scattered bones are common 
ftom various parts of the country, and even from the far north. 
“Hey are reported from the surface, soil, peat marshes, beds of 
marl or loam, etc.; but, as Lyell observes, there is yet no satis- 
factory evidence of their occurrence beneath the proper drift. 
. The North American Mastodon bones hitherto found appear to 
Ng to the same species, excepting a single tooth, reported from 
10 be, a true Maryland fossil, closely related to the Mast 
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Arr. XLII.— Notices of the Rarer Minerals and New Locali- 
_ lies in Western North Carolina; by C. L. Hunter, M.D. 
§ : The Diamond.—'The occurrence of the diamond in the United 
tes is now no longer a matter 0 
although logical indications favored its existence in the auril- 
ous Tegion of the South. By some, the truth of the newspaper 
