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a considerable number of bones, including parts of the legs, feet, 

 shoulder blades, vertebrae and pelvic bones. Both the upper and 

 lower jaws with the teeth and two tusks, 7 and 9 feet long, were 

 found. 



The bones were recovered from a layer of peat and were nowhere 

 in contact with the marl that underlaid this formation at a depth 

 of about 6 feet. Beneath and immediately around the bones was a 

 mass of coarse vegetable fibers said to resemble chopped straw — 

 perhaps the remains of the last meal. 71 



59 1829. Montgomery (vicinity). In 1829 remains of a young 

 specimen were disinterred by Archibald Crawford in the vicinity 

 of Montgomery and said to have been placed in the museum of 

 Peale of New York. Besides many bones of the trunk and limbs, 

 both tusks and jaws were found, Dr John Godman directed atten- 

 tion 72 to the presence of sockets and a fragment of tusk in the right 

 side of the lower jaw, and upon this evidence attempted to estab- 

 lish a new genus and species under the name Tetracaulodon 

 mastodontoideum. The specimen is of particular interest, 

 however, because of the retention of sixteen teeth in the jaws, there 

 being two teeth on each side, above and below, in addition to the 

 permanent complement. 



60 1838. Near Newburgh. In 1838 a tooth was found by 

 Daniel Embler of Newburgh, on or near the farm of Samuel Dixon 

 of that city. 73 



61 1843. West Point, lssachar Cozzens 74 in 1843, records mas- 

 todon remains from a bog at West Point. This is perhaps the dis- 

 covery to which Mather, 70 referred in the following terms : " Bones 

 of this animal (mastodon) are now (September 16, 1843) being 

 disinterred from the marl underlying peat in a marsh in Orange Co." 



The Shaivangunk Head 



64 1844. Scotchtown. "In 1844, [remains were] found 8 miles 

 southwest from Montgomery, on the farm of Mr Conner near 

 Scotchtown, in Wallkill." 76 



The remains in this case consisted of one of the largest and best 

 preserved heads ever found, but only a few other bones. Warren 77 



71 Mitchill in Cuvier, Theory of the Earth, 1S18, p. 376, pi. 7, fig. 1-4, pi. 

 8, figs. 1-3. Hovey, N. Y. Acad. Sci. Ann., igo8, 18:147, pi. 5. 

 "Amer. Phil. Soc. Tran., 1830, 3:478-85. 



73 Eager, Hist, of Orange Co., 1847, p. 73- 



74 History of Manhattan or New York Island," New York 1843, p. 103. 

 "Nat. Hist. N. Y. Geol. pt 1, 1843, p. 636. 



" Eager, Hist, of Orange Co., 1847, p. 73. 



"The Mastodon Giganteus of North America, 1852, p. 125-32, pi. 16. 



