﻿8 
  TWENTY-FIRST 
  REPORT 
  ON 
  THE 
  STATE 
  CABINET. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  survey 
  is 
  too 
  incomplete 
  to 
  allow 
  of 
  the 
  gen- 
  

   eralizations 
  which 
  we 
  hoped 
  to 
  deduce 
  from 
  it; 
  but 
  it 
  seems 
  pretty 
  

   clear 
  that 
  the 
  pot 
  holes 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  mastodon 
  skeleton 
  was 
  found, 
  

   were 
  not 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  present 
  or 
  any 
  former 
  river 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   channel, 
  but 
  by 
  some 
  force 
  which 
  operated 
  in 
  a 
  direction 
  from 
  north 
  

   to 
  south, 
  and, 
  as 
  seems 
  to 
  us 
  from 
  present 
  knowledge, 
  to 
  be 
  con- 
  

   nected 
  with 
  the 
  great 
  glacial 
  movement. 
  It 
  is 
  scarcely 
  necessary 
  

   to 
  go 
  into 
  a 
  detailed 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  map 
  in 
  its 
  incomplete 
  con- 
  

   dition. 
  In 
  order 
  to 
  realize 
  its 
  intended 
  objects, 
  the 
  survey 
  should 
  

   be 
  continued 
  from 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  to 
  a 
  point 
  several 
  

   miles 
  above, 
  and 
  even 
  to 
  Little 
  Falls, 
  and 
  also 
  to 
  the 
  northward, 
  

   before 
  we 
  can 
  give 
  such 
  generalizations 
  as 
  the 
  subject 
  demands. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  mounting 
  the 
  skeleton, 
  a 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  memorandum 
  has 
  been 
  kept 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  bones 
  preserved 
  and 
  

   their 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  skeleton, 
  and 
  also 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  missing 
  bones 
  for 
  

   which 
  substitutes 
  have 
  been 
  supplied 
  in 
  plaster 
  of 
  paris. 
  I 
  might 
  

   remark, 
  also, 
  that 
  for 
  all 
  the 
  important 
  missing 
  bones 
  we 
  have 
  had 
  

   the 
  corresponding 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  opposite 
  side. 
  This 
  is 
  true 
  of 
  one 
  

   scapula, 
  one 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  pelvis, 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  fore 
  and 
  hind 
  

   legs, 
  ribs, 
  etc.; 
  while 
  the 
  vertebrae 
  have 
  been 
  modelled 
  from 
  

   measurements 
  of 
  the 
  adjacent 
  ones 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  corresponding 
  

   members 
  of 
  the 
  Warren 
  mastodon. 
  

  

  The 
  mastodon 
  skeleton 
  measures 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Feet. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  tusks 
  .. 
  51 
  

  

  Spinal 
  column 
  15 
  

  

  Total 
  length 
  following 
  the 
  curve 
  -._ 
  20i 
  

  

  Total 
  length 
  in 
  a 
  direct 
  line 
  _._„. 
  ~~. 
  14J 
  

  

  Height 
  _ 
  9! 
  

  

  The 
  skeleton 
  as 
  now 
  mounted 
  at 
  the 
  Geological 
  Booms 
  stands 
  

   about 
  fifteen 
  inches 
  lower 
  than 
  it 
  would 
  have 
  done 
  had 
  we 
  adopted 
  

   the 
  ordinary 
  mode 
  of 
  mounting. 
  This 
  is 
  due 
  mainly 
  to 
  bringing 
  

   clown 
  the 
  vertebral 
  column 
  and 
  placing 
  the 
  scapulas 
  higher 
  upon 
  

   the 
  side 
  — 
  a 
  position 
  which 
  I 
  think 
  is 
  the 
  true 
  one; 
  while 
  in 
  the 
  

   Warren 
  mastodon 
  and 
  others, 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  scapulas 
  are 
  placed 
  

   nearly 
  on 
  a 
  line 
  with 
  the 
  sternal 
  bones, 
  which 
  gives 
  the 
  greater 
  

   elevation, 
  but, 
  as 
  I 
  believe, 
  by 
  a 
  distortion 
  of 
  the 
  relations 
  of 
  the 
  

   parts. 
  It 
  was 
  only 
  after 
  several 
  trials 
  and 
  the 
  careful 
  considera- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  elephants 
  and 
  other 
  animals 
  that 
  the 
  

   present 
  position 
  was 
  adopted. 
  However 
  gratifying 
  it 
  might 
  have 
  

   been 
  to 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  announce 
  the 
  skeleton 
  as 
  having 
  a 
  height 
  of 
  ten 
  

  

  