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deeper than at present, and, judging from the make of the land 

 around the sink, I should say it may have been deeper by many 

 feet. The slight dislocation or disturbance of the remains I have 

 no doubt were due to causes which would naturally operate in a 

 slough, into which large trees would be liable to fall and finally 

 sink to the bottom. In any event the remains must have been 

 buried much deeper in the muck and water for many, many years 

 in order to escape complete destruction, and the fact that the bones 

 of those animals were permeated with large proportions of fatty 

 matter would help greatly to preserve them. 



" The twigs found in such large quantities where the stomach 

 would naturally be were found, upon a miscroscopical examination 

 and camparison, to be the same kind (genera and species,) as the 

 cone-bearing trees (pine and spruce) of the present day. Mingled 

 with the twigs was a mass of yellowish fetid matter, probably the 

 remains of some vegetation which did not possess the staying quali- 

 ties of the balsamic cone-bearers." 



13 1871. Jamestown. Small mastoden. In the preceding ac- 

 count of the large mastodon found at Jamestown mention is made 

 of another description of this skeleton by T. A. Cheney. In the 

 body of his account such expressions as larger skeleton, smaller ani- 

 mal are found, and the concluding paragraph of his article is as fol- 

 lows: "The smaller skeleton (found at a short distance from the 

 larger one) was probably 7 feet in height; tusks 4 feet long. 4 

 inches wide, teeth 3^ inches in length; sections of jaw and rib 

 bones were also found." Although no mention is made of the 

 smaller mastodon by Obed Edson in his original account of the 

 larger skeleton, a letter received from him in 1919 stated that the 

 skeletons of four mastodons had been found in Chautauqua county. 

 Mr Edson also stated in his letter that some teeth of other mastodons 

 and elephants had been found in the county but was unable to give 

 any definite data regarding the other finds. The measurements 

 given of the smaller skeleton at Jamestown indicate the smallest 

 mastodon of which we have definite knowledge in New York State. 



14 1871. Portland (f). Mastodon or mammoth. We are in- 

 debted to William L. Bryant of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences for the following memorandum relating to a fragment of 

 a tusk in the Buffalo museum : " From G. W. Brud, Silver Creek, 

 N. Y., a fragment of a tusk of a mastodon [the tusk measured 13 

 feet long] dug out of a gravel bank in Portland (?), Chautauqua 

 county." 



15 1894. Sheridan. This specimen was discovered by Robert 

 Dahlman in April 1894, on his farm, which is in the town of 



