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of the head, several ribs, parts of two vertebrae, and some portion 

 of the pelvis were found, intermingled with gravel and covered by 

 clay and loam, and above these a deposit of shell marl. These bones 

 are now in the state collection. The tusk is said to have been nine 

 feet long, but was nearly destroyed by the workmen before remov- 

 ing it from the clay. A portion of a tibia was also found, which 

 is in the Rochester Museum." 



Sir Charles Lyell 48 during his travels in America in 1841, visited 

 the above locality. He writes, " In the suburbs of Rochester, Mi- 

 Hall and I visited a spot where the remains of the great mastodon 

 had been dug up from a bed of white shell-marl. I found frag- 

 ments of the fossil teeth and ivory of one tusk, and ascertained that 

 the accompanying shells were of recent species of the genera Lim- 

 nea, Planorbis, Valvata, Cyclas, etc." 



In the report of DeKay (1842), no mention is made by name of 

 the Sophia street (Rochester) find. The following, however, oc- 

 curs on page 103: "In the same year (meaning 1817), remains 

 were found in the city of Rochester, 4 feet below the surface, in a 

 hollow or watercourse." It is evident on comparing the above sen- 

 tence with the August 19th letter of Professor Dewey, that DeKay's 

 statement refers to the Sophia street discovery and that the date 

 should have been 1837 instead of 1817. On the basis of DeKay's 

 published statement, Hall in 1843 (page 364) lists finds for the two 

 vears 1817 and 1838, which are here combined under the date 



1837. 



40 1866? Mt Hope cemetery. "A few remains at Mount Hope 



cemetery, H. L. Ward." 49 This is all the information we have con- 

 cerning this find, and it is not known whether any of these bones 

 were ever collected. It is possible that the bones were too fragmen- 

 tary and probably not well preserved as only a few were found and 

 it is not known whether the bones belonged to a mastodon or a 

 mammoth. The locality is on the east side of the Genesee river, 

 the cemetery being in line with the southwestern extension of the 

 Pinnacle hills and apparently having a similar glacial origin, the 

 deposits being composed of sand and gravel. The site is less than 

 a mile from the Genesee Valley canal find of 1837. 



41 1913. Charlotte Boulevard, Rochester. In the geological 

 museum of the University of Rochester there is a rib of a mastodon 



43 Travels in North America, 1:18, 1&45. See also Lyell's article in Pro- 

 ceedings of the London Geological Society, v. 4, no. 92. This article is 

 also printed in Amer. Jour. Sci. v. 46, 1844; see p. 322 for reference to the 

 Rochester locality. 



49 Clarke, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 69, 1903, p. 931. 



