170 Miscellanies. 



15. Donax? breadth f inch. 



16. Nerita. 



17. Madrepora porites. 



II. Bones and teeth of Fishes. 



1 . Tooth of a Shark. Length 5f inches ; breadth at base within 

 the socket 6f inches. Many others of smaller size. 



2. Vertebrae of fishes about one inch in length, and nearly the 

 same in diameter. 



■ III. Bones and teeth of land animals. 



1. Fragments of the Horns of a fossil Elk? 



2. Hoof of a fossil Elk ? 9 inches in length.* 



3. Teeth of the Elk ? breadth 3 inches, depth 4j inche^. 



4. A vertebra 8 inches in diameter. [Presented to Th. Nuttall, 

 Esq. 



5. A vertebra 31 inches in diameter, 4j inches in length. [In my 

 possession.] 



6. A vertebra 1 inch in diameter, 2 inches in length. 



7. Grinders, 2 inches broad, 3 inches in depth. 



8. Fangs, 3 inches in depth ; tapering to a point. 



9. Grinder of the Mastodon giganteum of Cuvier. Breadth 7 

 inches ; depth 9^ inches. Presented by Mr. B. to the cabinet of 

 the University of North Carolina. A tooth was found at the depth 

 of 25 feet below the surface of the earth, mingled with sea-shells. 



The dimensions of this animal as given by Harlan, in his Fauna 

 Americana, are as follows: — Height at the withers from 10 to 11 

 feet ; length from the end of the snout, to the posterior part of the 

 pelvis, from 15 to 161 feet. It is remarkable that not more than 10 

 miles distant from these pits, to wit, in the Clubfoot Canal, was found 

 about 4 feet under the surface, the skeleton of another species, the 

 Mastodon angustidens of Cuvier. — See Harlan's Fauna p. 214. 

 One of the grinders of this skeleton in my possession measures 6J 

 inches in width. The cutting surfaces consists of elevated and con- 

 ical points, (4 pairs of points and an odd one,) differing considerably 

 from those of M. giganteum, and scarcely seeming to have been inten- 



* The animal to which the hoof and teeth above-mentioned belonged, must have 

 been much larger than a horse. The space between the extremities of the horns of 

 the fossil Elk of Ireland is said to have been eleven feet. The bones of the Ameri- 

 can fossil Elk, have hitherto been discovered only in the morass near the falls of the 

 Ohio, called Big-bone Lick, in company with the bones of the Mastodon, &c. — Har- 

 lan's Fauna, p. 247. 



