FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 35 



SCOTT COUNTY. 



Big Rock. — The Museum of the Davenport Acadeni}' of Science 

 contains a tooth of an E. primigenius, found near Big Eock and 

 donated by A. "VV. Manchester. 



(Information from label on specimen.) 



Blue Grass. — A portion of a skeleton of a mammoth was dis- 

 covered near Dr. Carpenter's residence (June 27, 1858), imbedded 

 in yellow clay and lying about ten feet below the surface of the 

 ground. This is not, however, its first discovery. In 184-i, in 

 the same locality, the tusks were found, and, it is said, were 

 eleven feet in length. Some of the molar teeth were taken at the 

 same time and in almost perfect state of preservation, the enamel 

 being clearty discernible, as in the case of the one lately discovered. 



"The tusks of the animal formerly unearthed were fully the 

 size mentioned, but they soon crumbled to pieces on exposure to 

 the atmosphere. The largest of the molar teeth was about four- 

 teen inches in length. It was exhumed in three pieces, and may 

 now be seen in an almost perfect state of preservation in our cabi- 

 net, where also may be seen some of the bones, showing very per- 

 fectly their osseous formation and the kind of clay in which they 



were imbedded." 



(Editor Davenport Daily Gazette. June 30, ISoS ) 



Z'aFezjport.— A tusk, several molars, and some bones of the 

 mammoth were exhumed in the west part of the city. They were 

 found at the junction of the j^ellow and bluish clays, three feet 

 above the peat bed, indicating that the skeleton was deposited 

 after the blue stratum of the loess, the body having floated there 

 or the creature having waded in to his destruction. The specimen 

 is in the Davenport Academy of Science. 



[Proceeding's of the Davenport Academy of Science, Vol. I, p. 9S.) 



Dr. C. A. White comments on thislocality as follows: ''Such of 

 these deposits (alluvium), as partake more of the character of 

 marsh accumulations are found in somewhat similar positions. 



