lt)8 MASTODDX REMAIN'S IX NOVA >.C!)TIA. PIEKS. 



but. without success.'^ As the place is thoroughly cultivated, 

 ir i:; exceedingly doubtful if mere superficial examination Avould 

 disclose anything further, but it is quite possible that the sub- 

 soil may yet hide other parts of the skeleton. 



Beferences and figures. — Manuscript lists of articles iu the 

 Halifax Mechanics' Institute, circa 1835, and June. 1839. 

 Dawson (Sir J. W.). Acadian Geology, 1st ed., 1855, pp. 

 57-58; 2nd ed., 1868, p. 83, with figure on p. 84: 3rd ed., 

 1878, do.: 4th ed. f Geology of Xova Scotia, etc.), 1891, do. 

 Honeyman (Eev. I), i. Giants and Pigmies, 1887, pp. 87-88. 

 Dawson (Sir J. W.). Handbook of Geology, 1889, p. 157. 

 McEae (Duncan), information in manuscript furnished by 

 him, February, 1912. 



Molar Tooth. 



Description. — The tcoth is a molar, probably a second one, 

 ];'Ut I am not able to say whether it is from the right lower or 

 the left upper maxilla. It has three well defined transverse 

 ''nipple ridges'' on the crown, but with very inconspicuous 

 tubercles thereon, and no cement in the hollows of the enamel, 

 etc. The roots or '"fangs"' are two, the anterior one much 

 smaller than the posterior one. In the latter, which has per- 

 haps been slightly broken or eroded at the apex, is the nerve 

 and artery canal open at the apex of the root and bifurcating 

 at the inner extremity where it communicates with the pulp- 

 cavity. The enamel is jet black externally, and white within. 

 The l:;lack layer occupies from nearly nothing to about one- 

 quarter of the total thickness of the enamel. The dentine is 

 of cream colour. The tooth T\'as in good preservation when found, 

 but unfortunately the finders undertook to investigate its struc- 

 ture with the aid of a blacksmith's hammer and vice, and so 



*D. J. Mc Hae of Baddack, a relutive of Alexander, pars that in 1850 Admiral 

 Dundonald with his «hip was in the Bras d"Or. and having heVrd of the finding of the 

 Mastodon remains, went to Middle River with a niimher of bis sailors, and that the 

 Admiral took away to England a broken " tooth " (tu=k ?) which had been found there 

 but that it was afterwards returned to Xova Scotia. While this fixes the time o 

 Dundonald's visit, there can be li'tle or no doubt that the tusk from Middle River was 

 taken from there prior to 1835. See remarks on the Tusk 



