172 MASTODON' REMAINS IN NoVA SCOTIA. PIERS. 



Other Bemains. 



DaTvson (Acadian Geology, 1st eel., 1S55, p. 58) say.s that 

 while the femur aud tusk fragmeuts were the ouly remaius 

 he had then seen in the province, yet he was informed that 

 others had been found, though several of the best specimens 

 had imfortmiately been lost by shipwreck. 



The late Alfred F. Haliburton of Baddeck, Victoria county, 

 sergeant-at-arms of the house of assembly, assured me. about 

 1901. that he was with tho.'^e who brought awav the Mastodon 

 remains or some of them in a canoe from ]\Iiddle Eiver. I 

 distinctly understood him to refer to that locality when he was 

 speaking, and he thought the date would be about 1836 accord- 

 ing to his recollection. He said they also had a skull or part 

 of a skull of the animal, but it was lost by the upsetting of the 

 heavily-laden canoe, presumabh' in the Middle river. It 

 would seem as though this was what Dawson referred to when 

 he said that some of the best specimens had been ''lost by ship- 

 wreck." Duncan McRae, however, va'ites me that he does not 

 remember ever having heard of this skull or of any specimens 

 having been thus lost, the only remains he recalls being the 

 femur and the "•sickle-shapel tooth*' as he calls it. 



The Possihilify of finding other Bemains. 



One purpose of this paper has Ijeen to draw attention to the 

 advisability of making search here for further remains of the 

 Mastodon, as well as to make a systematic record of all the 

 obtainable information regarding such as have been already 

 discovered. 



It seems hardly possible that we have already discovered 

 the only existing remains of the Mastodon that are in the 

 province, and it would be well if we were to carefully investi- 

 gate every reported case, that may come to our knowledge, of 

 large bones being found anywhere, particularly at a distance 

 from the sea. as at the latter remains of cetaceans are often met 

 with. While the island of Cape Breton naturally suggests 



