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  New 
  york 
  StAte 
  museum 
  

  

  who 
  caused 
  them 
  to 
  be 
  mounted 
  at 
  the 
  natural 
  history 
  establish- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  Prof. 
  Henry 
  A. 
  Ward 
  in 
  Rochester, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  The 
  prompt 
  

   action 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  matter 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  preservation 
  of 
  this 
  

   valuable 
  relic 
  which 
  was 
  returned 
  to 
  Pike 
  and 
  allowed 
  to 
  remain 
  

   on 
  exhibition 
  at 
  the 
  Pike 
  Seminary 
  until 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  the 
  

   Genesee 
  Valley 
  Museum 
  Building 
  in 
  1898. 
  In 
  1904^ 
  the 
  seminary 
  

   building 
  was 
  destroyed 
  by 
  fire. 
  The 
  measurements 
  of 
  the 
  Pike 
  

   mastodon 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  skull, 
  measured 
  in 
  a 
  straight 
  line 
  from 
  back 
  to 
  front.. 
  43 
  ^2 
  inches 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  tusks, 
  measured 
  along 
  lower 
  curve 
  9654 
  inches 
  

  

  Greatest 
  circumference 
  of 
  the 
  tusks. 
  . 
  . 
  23 
  inches 
  

  

  I 
  append 
  here 
  some 
  historically 
  interesting 
  observations 
  on 
  the 
  

   occurrence 
  of 
  mastodon 
  bones 
  in 
  America 
  made 
  by 
  Dr 
  Johann 
  

   David 
  Schoepf 
  in 
  his 
  Reise 
  durch 
  einige 
  der 
  mittlern 
  und 
  sudlichen 
  

   vefeinigten 
  nordamerikanischen 
  Stoat 
  en, 
  nach 
  Ost-Florida 
  und 
  den 
  

   Bahama-Inseln, 
  unternommen 
  in 
  den 
  Jahren 
  1783 
  und 
  1/84, 
  

   volume 
  1, 
  pages 
  408-15, 
  1788. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  work 
  of 
  extraordinary 
  

   interest 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  quite 
  overlooked 
  by 
  students 
  of 
  American 
  

   history. 
  Its 
  author 
  was 
  a 
  surgeon 
  in 
  the 
  Hessian 
  forces 
  sent 
  over 
  by 
  

   George 
  III 
  and 
  remained 
  after 
  the 
  consummation 
  of 
  peace 
  to 
  travel 
  

   through 
  the 
  country 
  and 
  collect 
  scientific 
  materials. 
  The 
  narrative 
  

   gives 
  a 
  lively, 
  anecdotal 
  picture 
  of 
  the 
  domestic 
  and 
  community 
  life 
  

   of 
  the 
  times 
  interspersed 
  with 
  interesting 
  reflections 
  on 
  the 
  new 
  

   government. 
  Dr 
  Schoepf 
  was 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  other 
  more 
  technical 
  

   works 
  arising 
  from 
  his 
  American 
  experiences. 
  He 
  wrote 
  a 
  treatise 
  

   on 
  American 
  Materia 
  Medica, 
  on 
  the 
  Reptiles 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  and 
  

   was 
  the 
  first 
  man 
  of 
  science 
  to 
  produce 
  a 
  special 
  treatise 
  on 
  the 
  

   geology 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  His 
  Beytrdge 
  zur 
  Miner 
  ologischen 
  

   Kenntnisse 
  der 
  Ostlichen 
  Theils 
  von 
  Nordamcrika 
  und 
  seiner 
  Ge- 
  

   bilrge 
  published 
  in 
  1787 
  is 
  cliaracterized 
  by 
  acute 
  observation 
  and 
  

   keen 
  interpretations 
  of 
  geological 
  phenomena. 
  It 
  was 
  50 
  years 
  in 
  

   advance 
  of 
  the 
  times 
  and 
  wholly 
  ignored 
  by 
  the 
  first 
  American 
  

   workers 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  field. 
  Of 
  these 
  books 
  only 
  his 
  Materia 
  Medica 
  

   was 
  translated 
  into 
  English. 
  German 
  was 
  unpopular, 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  

   language 
  of 
  the 
  hated 
  Hessians 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Hanoverian 
  house. 
  So 
  

   these 
  very 
  illuminating 
  and 
  interesting 
  volumes 
  have 
  been 
  buried 
  

   as 
  deep 
  as 
  Captain 
  Kidd's 
  treasure. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  natural 
  rarities 
  of 
  the 
  Kentucky 
  regions, 
  the 
  many 
  

   large 
  teeth 
  and 
  bones 
  belonging 
  to 
  an 
  animal 
  no 
  longer 
  existing 
  in 
  

   all 
  America 
  have 
  long 
  excited 
  the 
  wonder 
  of 
  all 
  travelers. 
  The 
  place 
  

   where 
  they 
  were 
  first 
  discovered 
  in 
  great 
  heaps 
  is 
  a 
  low 
  hill, 
  on 
  the 
  

   east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  2-3 
  miles 
  from 
  its 
  banks 
  and 
  about 
  584 
  miles 
  

   below 
  Fort 
  Pitt, 
  measured 
  along 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  river. 
  At 
  the 
  

   sources 
  of 
  a 
  little 
  brook 
  where 
  there 
  are 
  extensive 
  salt 
  licks, 
  the 
  

  

  