REPORT OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST 1902 



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and African elephants, that of the former wrinkling up when bent, 

 as though it were equally elastic throughout, while that of the 

 latter bends, as it were, in sections, suggesting the joints of a 

 telescope. As the skull and teeth of the mastodon are simpler in 

 acture than those of the Indian elephant, and in these par- 

 ticulars more like the corresponding parts of the African ele- 

 phant, it is a fair inference that the trunk was similar and that 

 it also lacked the finger like process of the Indian species. The 

 northern mammoth was clad in hair and wool, and, as the mas- 

 todon ranged well to the north, it is fair to suppose that the 

 more northern individuals were more or less completely clad m 

 hair. And this supposition is substantiated by the discovery 

 noted bv Rembrant Peale of long, coarse, woolly hair, in one of 

 the swamps of Ulster county, N. Y. Thus the restoration of the 

 mastodon represents a proportionately lower, more heavily built 

 elephant than those now living, with recurved tusks and jointed 

 trunk, and clad in fairly long hair. 



Suffolk county 

 1823 Eiverhead 



More than one half of lower jaw with teeth; found 

 between tides, 4 miles east of Eiverhead. 

 Rockland county 

 1817 (De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y.; Zool. 1842. pt 1, p. 103) 



Orange county 

 1790-1800 Montgomery 



Bones of the mastodon were found in 1790-91 and 1800 

 in the town of Montgomery about 12 miles from New- 

 burg, Orange county. They were 10 feet below the sur- 

 face, in a peat bog in marl. Several bones of the legs, 

 some of the vertebrae, several ribs, and some of the bones 

 of the head were obtained. . . " Eight similar skele- 

 tons have been discovered within eight or 10 miles of the 

 neighboring country, and some of them were fifteen or 

 twenty feet below the surface of the earth." (#. Mitch- 

 ell Medical Repository, New York. 1801. 4:212) All 

 these specimens were discovered between 1790 and 1800. 

 Some bones of these animals were found in 1782 3 miles 

 south of Ward's bridge in Montgomery, Orange county; 

 another locality 1 mile east of the above bridge; another 

 3 miles east; another 7 miles northeast; another 7 miles 

 east; another 5 miles westwardly from the same bridge; 

 and another 10 miles north of the same bridge in the 

 town of Shawangunk. Mather. Geol. First Dist. 1842. 

 p. 282-83. 



