Man and the Mastodon in Missouri. 839 
fore foot all but some few small bones, that were too much decayed 
o be worth — we between the oe wre had sunk 
from the ashes, and a gre many 0 of the sinews arteries a A 
plain to be seen on the ea th and rocks, but in a a state as not 
to be moved, excepting in small pieces, the size of a hand, which 
are now preserved i in spirits. 
“Should any doubts arise in the = of the reader, of the cor- 
rectness of the above statement, he can be referred to more than 
twenty witnesses, who were present at Fis time of digging. fee ined 
Journal, 1839, xxxvi, 198. 
The statements respecting this prob hahs in the pamphlet of 
1848 agree, in the main with the above. There is the addi- 
spirits. 
Il. “ The second trace of human existence with these pia I 
Miss There w. 
bedded, immediately under the femur or hind leg bone of this ani- 
mal, eg arrow-head of rose-coloured flint, resembling those used 
by the American Indians, but of a larger size. This was the only 
“The original senha on which this river flowed é the time it 
was inhabited by the Missourium pa wiaest aaa (and up “ the 
time of its destruction), was of the upper green sand. the 
surface of this stratum, and partly mingled with it, was the Jepedle 
of the before-described skeleton. The next stratum is from three 
to four feet in thickness, and consisted of a brown alluvium of the 
Eocene region, and was composed of vegetable matters of a tropi- 
cal ‘production —it sont all the remainder of the ske le ton. 
M 
whet aR oe was not full blown. There no sign or indi- 
Cation of any very large trees, the cypresses chet were discovered 
