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horses measure | of an inch. This would make the original length of 

 the tooth more than four inches. The size of the tooth in other direc- 

 tions was about proportional. Now as these measurements go far over 

 those for our largest horses, they would seem to indicate a fossil horse larger 

 than those of the present epoch ; whereas Cuvier says that all the bones 

 of horses seen by him, indicated the former existence of small horses. 

 {Ossemens Fossiles, 3d edition, Vol. II. pp. 112, 113.) This fossil is ren- 

 dered interesting, as the remains of the horse are but seldom found fossil 

 in America. 



The enamel of all these teeth is in a good state of preservation ; the 

 internal or bony parts have a peculiar ferruginous color, a little deeper 

 than that of the sandy clay in which they were found ; they are very fra- 

 gile. The large mastodon's tooth and that of the horse were found im- 

 mediately together, at a considerable depth (several feet) beneath the 

 original surface. 



These fossils came from a neighborhood which seems to abound in those 

 of the mastodon. A molar was found about six or seven miles from the 

 same place, several years since, weighing 13 pounds. It was sent to Eng- 

 land by the person who obtained it. 



Those lately found are in my charge, deposited in the cabinet of the 

 College of Louisiana. 



