20 FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 



animal had not long been left to decay undisturbed. Marks of * 

 gnawing upon a few of the bones give reason to suppose that the 

 water in which the carcass lay was so shallow as to give access to 

 carnivorous animals. Fragments are in possession of the Chicago 

 Academy of Science. ^^^j.^^.^ Geological Survey, Vol. IV, p. 242. ) 



Dan ville-— Near the town of Danville, in the bluff formmg the 

 tableland of the country, the following section was observed: 



Soil — five feet. 



Gravel, with bones of an elephant — eight feet. 



Clay — two feet. 



Fine washed sand reposing on rocks of coal measures — two 

 feet. 



(Proceedings, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Vol.X (18.56), p. 163.) 



Hoopeston. — The tusks which were used in the restoration of 

 a skeleton of Mastodon awericanus in the American Museum of 

 Natural History were found near Hoopeston in 1879. 



(Report of State Paleontologist, New York, 1902, p. 926.) 



East Lynn. — "The only mastodon bones ever found in this vi- 

 cinity were found while the workmen were digging a ditch on the 

 farm of a man named Guingrich at East Lynn, about twenty-four 

 years ago(1881). I have forgotten almost all the circumstances." 



(Reported by Chnrles W. Warner, Hoopeston.) 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Beaucoup. — According to Dr. SteA^ens, in an excavation along 

 the line of the Illinois Central raUroad near Beaucoup, at the 

 depth of about eighteen feet were found the remains of a mastodon 

 in the prairie drift, below the yellow clay in the older or reddish 

 clay. 



( Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science (1856), pp. 14S— 160.) 



