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the water. A similar horn was found in the water at the lower end 

 of the Upper Narrows, by some of the early settlers. Captain 

 Daniel McDowell, a former resident of Chemung was captured at 



Shawanee on the 12th of September, 1782, by the Indians, and car- 

 ried to Niagara, and thence to Quebec. While a captive among the 



Indians he saw (it is believed at Quebec,) the identical horn which 

 gave the name of Chemung to the river theretofore called Tioga. 

 He stated to the writer in his life time that it was a counterpart of 

 the one found at the Upper Narrows, about the year 1791. Captain 

 McDowell had seen both, and was well calculated to give an opinion 

 in the matter. The river is still called Tioga above its junction 

 with the Cohocton, at Painted Post, and to its head, in the neighbor- 

 hood of Blossburgh, Pennsylvania." 



18 1788. Chemung river (upper narrows). Mastodon or mam- 

 moth. In the preceding account, the early find with date given as 

 about 1794, should probably be 1788 in which case the occurrence 

 would be the same as the one of which the account follows : 



"A Description of a Horn or Bone, lately found in the River 

 Chemung, or Tyoga, a western Branch of the Susquehanna, about 

 12 miles from Tyoga Point: Communicated by the Hon. 

 TIMOTHY EDWARDS, of Stockbridge, Esq. ; in a Letter to the 

 Rev. Joseph Willard, D. D. 



January, 1788. 



" It is 6 feet 9 inches long, 21 inches round, at the large end, and 

 15 inches, at the small end. In the large end is a cavity, 2)4 inches 

 in diameter, much like the hollow which is filled with the pith of 

 the horn of the ox : This is only 6 inches deep. Every other part 

 is, or appears to have been solid. The exteriour part, where entire 

 or not perished, is smooth ; and in one spot of a dark colour. The 

 interiour parts are of a clear white, and have the resemblance of 

 well burnt, unslacked lime stone ; but these can be seen only where 

 it is perished, tender, and broken. From one end to the other, it 

 appears to have been nearly round; and on it there have been no 

 prongs or branches. It is incurvated nearly into an arch of a large 

 circle. By the present state of both the ends, much of it must have 

 perished ; probably 2 or 3 feet from each end. From a general view 

 of it, there is reason to believe, that in its natural state, it was nearly 

 a semicircle of 10 or 12 feet. The undecayed parts, particularly 

 the outside, send forth a stench, like a burning horn or bone. Of 

 what animal this is the horn or bone, and what has become of this 

 animal, are questions worthy of the curious and learned." 19 



1 From Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 2. 



