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CORRECTION. 



Samuel W. Eager, esquire, the historian of Orange county in 

 t^iis State, in a letter addressed to the Secretary, dated August 

 22, 1852, points out an error of statement made in the Third 

 Annual Eeport on the State Cabinet of Natural History, page 1 56 

 of the first edition, and page 160 of the second. 



" If you will take the trouble (be remarks) to refer to Eager's History 

 " of Orange County, Article Mastodon, p. 77, you will find a copy of a 

 " letter from Governor Dudley to tbe Eev. Cotton Mather, D.D., dated 

 " at Eoxbury, lOtb July 1706, in whicb tbe tootb in question is particular- 

 " ly described, with the place of finding, wholly, etc." 



The period of discovery was therefore in 1706, instead of 1713. 



