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was taken in a swamp, and long used as a door-step by a person ignorant of 

 its character. 



Essex Co. — Verona, a perfect tooth. (Cope, in Geol. N. J. 1868, pp. 740, 



741 •) 



Gloucester Co. — Harrisonville, Mullica Hill and Woodbury. The first 2 

 localities were given me by Mr. Valiant. I record the Woodbury specimen 

 on the authority of Dr. J. C. Currie, of that city, who states it was obtained 

 on Mantua Creek, and is in his yard. 



Mercer Co. — Near Trenton, a specimen of tusk, said to be found associ- 

 ated with stone implements in the Trenton gravels in 1878, 12 ft. below the 

 surface, is in the Rutgers' College Museum. 



Monmouth Co. — (i) Englishtown, in marl (fide Mr. Valiant). (2) Free- 

 hold, bones found by O. R. Wills (Cope, I.e.). (3) Hartshorne's Mills (a 

 milk tooth) (Cope, 1. c), (4) Long Branch, skeleton standing in a marsh. 

 (See Geol. Surv. N. York 18?, p. 4.). (5) Marlboro, mandibular ramus of 

 young one with milk dentition. In Rutgers College Museum. (6) Poplar, 

 in 1824, skeleton. (See Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. 11, p. 246 ; also Godman's N. 

 Hist., 1826, p. 249.) 



Morris Co. — (i) Boonton (fide Mr. Valiant). (2) Morris Canal, near 

 Schooley's Mt., in 1827. (See Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. 14, p. 188.) A very 

 large and perfect skeleton. 



Salem Co. — Mannington. Probably the finest specimen of this animal now 

 preserved in this or any other country is in the museum of Rutgers College, 

 New Brunswick, N. Jersey. It was recently mounted by Ward, of Rochester: 

 , Very few bones were missing, these being almost exclusively tail vertebrae. 

 Its great size and the extraordinary preservation and development of the 

 tusks, forming a double or spiral curvature upward and outward to the length 

 of 9 feet, render it a most unique and valuable specimen. It was excavated 

 from a bed of gray (" recent or tertiary ") marl on the " Chestnut Hill " farm, 

 then owned by J. R. Hackett, and was embedded 6 or 8 feet below the sur- 

 face. The extreme standing length from the ends of the tusks to the poste- 

 rior border of the pelvis is 22 feet. To this should be added an additional 

 length of 5 feet of tail vertebrse. The total length of the tail vertebrse, as 

 restored by Ward, is 6J^ feet. Height at shoulder 9 feet ?>y^ inches. 

 Length of skull 3 feet 8 inches ; its width 2 feet 10 inches. 



These facts were furnished by the obliging curator, Mr. Valiant, and veri- 

 fied by me during a recent visit to the Museum. — Rhoads. 



Sussex Co. — Near Greenville, bones dug up about 1853 (Cope 1. c). 



Warren Co. — (i) Near Hope, skeleton, sent to N. York (Cope 1. c). 

 (2) Near Vienna (tooth), on farm of J. Hance (Cope 1. c). (3) Between 

 Vienna and Hackettstown ; six skeletons in marshy bog on the farm of Wm. 

 Ayers, under 6 feet of mud. (See Lyell's Elements of Zoology.) 



